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Muttok or Lamb Chops Breaded

Breaded mutton or lamb chops fried until golden, served with peas, string beans, or mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,648 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Muttok or Lamb Chops Breaded

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the chops, leaving about ¼ inch of fat on the outside.

  2. For loin chops, turn the soft flap end round; for rib chops, cut 1½ inches of meat from the bone and scrape it.

  3. Dip the chops in beaten eggs, then coat them with breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat the fat until very hot, then drop in the breaded chops.

  2. Cook mutton chops for 1 minute until brown outside and pink inside.

  3. Cook lamb chops for 2 minutes until well done.

  4. Serve the chops around a mound of green peas, string beans, or mashed potatoes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Mutton + eggtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,648 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the breadcrumbs to the meat so the coating adheres during frying.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, browned crust when fried in hot fat.
Hot fat for frying
Cooks the coating quickly, browning the outside while the meat stays juicy.

The step that matters

Heating the fat until very hot before adding the chops. Very hot fat sears the breaded coating immediately, creating a crust that seals in juices and keeps the coating from soaking up grease. Cooler fat lets the crumbs absorb oil and turn heavy.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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