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Grilled Lamb, Tomatoes and Feta Recipe

There's a lovely summery feel to this dish; indeed you could very well barbecue the chops rather than grill them indoors.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and feta cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 102 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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 + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Feta cheese + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Rosemary + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Rosemary + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the rosemary

The recipe marks rosemary as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, tomato, feta cheese, olive, pepper):

  1. Oreganoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Garlicabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Rosemarythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, tomato, feta cheese, olive, pepper. 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).