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Lamb Pizza Recipe

These traditional Arab pizzas are popular in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey - they're commonly eaten as a street snack.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Sumac and mint share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 39 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep4 hr
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Sumac + minttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Sunflower + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together546 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  5. Garlic + lambtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,376 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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 (sugar, flour, sunflower, olive, butter, garlic, lamb):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Eggplantbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, sunflower, olive, butter, garlic, lamb. 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).