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Skint Dad Lamb Bhuna Fakeaway

Lamb Bhuna sets itself out to be a medium/hot curry but I didn’t find this recipe too overbearing. In the short time the lamb was cooking, the spices infused to give off a deep warming flavour which all of us, including our youngest daughter Chloe, enjoyed.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and lamb work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 492 recipes mention both. Both carry sabinene, which smells woody, terpenic. The science ↓

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Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

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By tastykitchen. 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. Cumin + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  2. Turmeric + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,698 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Coriander + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,866 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,775 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 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 (ginger, garlic, turmeric, coriander, cumin, lamb, tomato):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, garlic, turmeric, coriander, cumin, lamb, 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).