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Four & Thirty Braised Lamb

A sensational Sunday lunch - why not try it for Easter>

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,391 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

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

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By bbcgoodfood. 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 + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,391 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Thyme + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Thyme + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,188 recipes

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

  5. Leek + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together360 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 leek

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

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

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