Name: Ox-Palates a LA Florentine—Curried
Ingredients: Ox palates; curry powder; salt; water; butter; onions; garlic; cooked rice

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Ox-Palates a LA Florentine—Curried

Ingredients

Directions

Clean the ox palates and cut them into pieces.
In a pot, melt butter and sauté chopped onions and garlic until golden.
Add the ox palates and cook until browned.
Stir in curry powder and salt, then add water to cover.
Simmer until the palates are tender.
Serve over cooked rice.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,433 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Garlic + ricetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,358 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together42,912 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Butter + ricetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,645 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).