Name: Leg of Lamb a LA Palestine
Ingredients: 1 leg of lamb; Jerusalem artichokes

Why it works: Lamb and jerusalem artichoke work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry geraniol, which smells rose, geranium. The science ↓

Leg of Lamb a LA Palestine

Ingredients

1 leg of lamb
Jerusalem artichokes

Directions

Boil the leg of lamb in a cloth or pot until cooked.
Prepare a puree of Jerusalem artichokes that is thicker than usual.
Dress the boiled leg of lamb with the puree before serving.

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 + jerusalem artichoketop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11 recipes

Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

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

What each ingredient does

Leg of lamb: Provides the main meat, cooked through by gentle boiling to stay tender and moist.
Jerusalem artichokes: Form a thick, starchy puree that adds body and a mild earthy sweetness to the dish.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.