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Hot Harissa Lamb with Couscous

Simple ingredients turned into a quick supper that's good enough for guests

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Harissa and lamb work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 40 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (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. Harissa + lambtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Lamb + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together429 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Harissa + sugartop 29% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together22 recipes

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