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Rosemary and Garlic Salt Baked Lamb Shank

Lamb shank baked in a salt pastry crust, infused with rosemary and garlic. An ingenious and delicious recipe.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 29 ingredients
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Why it works: Rosemary and star anise share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 45 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (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. Rosemary + star anisetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + star anisetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Rosemary + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,179 recipes

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

  4. Rosemary + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together155 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Rosemary + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together396 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, egg, rosemary, lamb, garlic, white wine, vinegar):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  4. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, rosemary, lamb, garlic, white wine, vinegar. 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).