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Lamb En Croûte with Redcurrant Sauce

Teaming lamb with sage instead of mint is a clever idea for a festive feast - and you can freeze this dish for up to a month

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Lamb En Croûte with Redcurrant Sauce

Why it works: Sage and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 465 recipes. Both carry 1,8-cineol, which smells eucalyptus, camphor. The science ↓

Lamb En Croûte with Redcurrant Sauce

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

497Calories
32 gProtein
40 gFat
2 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Pastrynot in our table0
Redcurrantnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sage + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1,8-cineol (eucalyptus, camphor).

  2. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Lamb + rosemarytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together396 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Olive + sagetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Lamb + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, olive, egg, rosemary):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, olive, egg, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.