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Forest Kebab

..or "skau kebab" if you like. A delicious Norwegian twist to this fast-food favourite, and only about 400 calories each! I translated this from a Norwegian food website.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and chanterelle work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 + chanterelletop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Cumin + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Pepper + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, butter, pepper, garlic, chanterelle, onion, cream):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, butter, pepper, garlic, chanterelle, onion, 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).