Name: Lamb Chops Fried Dry
Ingredients: Lamb chops; Coarse sea salt; French beans; Cream

Why it works: Lamb and beans work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 158 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb Chops Fried Dry

Ingredients

Lamb chops
Coarse sea salt
French beans
Cream

Directions

Season the lamb chops with coarse sea salt.
Fry the lamb chops until dry and thin.
Serve with French beans cooked in cream 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.

Lamb + beanstop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together158 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Beans + creamtop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,341 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
Lamb + creamtop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together461 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).