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Lamb Kabobs with Pomegranate Glaze

Pomegranate molasses and fresh mint lend exotic flavors to this lamb. Colorful vegetable skewers cook alongside. Serve with quick-cooking couscous; for extra flavor, cook it in chicken broth with sautéed onions, turmeric and cumin.

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Lamb Kabobs with Pomegranate Glaze

Why it works: Pomegranate and cumin share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 96 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Lamb Kabobs with Pomegranate Glaze

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

655Calories
30 gProtein
37 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By williamssonoma. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pomegranate + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Pomegranate + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Shallot + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,853 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Cumin + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pomegranate, molasses, shallot, olive, cumin, lamb, pepper):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pomegranate, molasses, shallot, olive, cumin, lamb, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.