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Rack of Lamb with a Herb Crust Served with Dauphinoise Potatoes, Jerusalem Artichoke Flan and Aromatic Lamb Jus

Lamb goes brilliantly with creamy sidekicks. Here is has the double whammy of dauphinoise potatoes and a savoury artichoke custard.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 31 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 520 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep1 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Lamb + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,340 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Carrot + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,105 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 carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, celery, thyme, rosemary, white wine, milk, cream):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotthe original
  3. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, celery, thyme, rosemary, white wine, milk, cream. 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).