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Stewed Lamb Chops, with Peas

A stew of lamb chops simmered with onion, salt, pepper, and peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stewed Lamb Chops, with Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and simmer

  1. Remove the skin from the lamb chops.

  2. Place the chops in a saucepan and cover with boiling water.

  3. Add the chopped onion, salt, and pepper.

  4. Simmer until the chops are tender.

Add peas and finish

  1. Remove the chops.

  2. Add peas to the gravy and simmer for ten minutes.

  3. Reduce the gravy by half before serving.

  4. Place the chops in the center of a dish.

  5. Arrange the peas around the chops.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

  1. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Onion + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Lamb + peastop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together650 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Main protein; slow simmering in liquid breaks down connective tissue so the meat turns tender.
Onion
Adds sweetness and savory depth to the simmering liquid that becomes the gravy.
Peas
Add sweetness and a bright green color to the dish and soften in the gravy.

The step that matters

Simmer until the chops are tender. Simmering gently rather than boiling hard keeps the meat from toughening. Connective tissue breaks down slowly at low heat, so the chops need time to become tender.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, onion, pepper):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Peasthe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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