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Eggplant Stuffed with Lamb and Feta

"Eggplant halves are stuffed with a flavorful mixture of lamb, feta, and spices. Complete this meal with a green salad and crusty bread - easy enough for any day of the week!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and egg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,189 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 eggplant halves
Prep35 min
Cook1 hr 5 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lamb + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,189 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Eggplant + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together801 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (eggplant, olive, lamb, pepper, garlic, cinnamon, allspice):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against eggplant, olive, lamb, pepper, garlic, cinnamon, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).