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Lamb Three Ways with a Fricassée of Wild Mushrooms, Peas and Broad Beans

This dish is a lamb lover’s ideal, with cutlets served two different ways, with sweetbreads and a delicious lamb sauce.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 38 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and peas match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 139 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep1 hr
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Truffle + peastop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together139 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Truffle + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,900 recipes

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

  5. Peas + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, onion, celery, garlic, thyme, olive, lamb):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, onion, celery, garlic, thyme, olive, 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).