Why it works: Lamb and bread work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 598 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓
Kidneys Breaded
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the membranes from the lamb kidneys.
Coat the kidneys in bread crumbs.
Broil the coated kidneys until cooked through.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Lamb + breadtop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together598 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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