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Roasted Lamb with Toasted Carraway and Mint Recipe

I found a recipe a long time ago that called for a rack or shoulder of lamb to be coated in carraway seeds and allowed to sit over night before roasting. However...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and mint work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 772 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Roasted Lamb with Toasted Carraway and Mint Recipe

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

297Calories
25 gProtein
21 gFat
0 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lamb + minttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together772 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Mint + apple cider vinegartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Lamb + apple cider vinegartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, apple cider vinegar):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, apple cider vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.