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Braised Lamb Shanks with Swiss Chard

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and chard work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry geraniol, which smells rose, geranium. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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 + chardtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  2. Cinnamon + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,299 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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 (flour, cinnamon, cardamom, lamb, olive, garlic, tomato):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, cinnamon, cardamom, lamb, olive, garlic, tomato. 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).