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Breaded Lamb Chops, Stewed Tomatoes

Breaded lamb chops served with stewed tomatoes and sautéed onion.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Breaded Lamb Chops, Stewed Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare the lamb

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Season the lamb chops with salt and pepper.

  3. Coat the lamb chops in bread crumbs.

Bake the chops

  1. Place the lamb chops in a baking dish and bake for 20-25 minutes.

Make the stewed tomatoes

  1. In a saucepan, melt butter and sauté chopped onion until translucent.

  2. Add chopped tomatoes to the onion and simmer for 10 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve the breaded lamb chops with stewed tomatoes on the side.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Main protein; the meat is the focus of the dish.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating on the outside of the chops.
Tomatoes
Provide moisture and acidity that soften into a sauce as they simmer.
Onion
Sweetens as it softens, adding aroma and depth to the tomatoes.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the onion cook gently and brown lightly.

The step that matters

Coat the lamb chops in bread crumbs. If the coating is loose or unevenly applied, it can fall off or burn in patches during baking. Pressing the crumbs firmly onto the meat helps them adhere and brown evenly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, bread, pepper, tomato, butter):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, bread, pepper, tomato, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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