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Lamb Chops with Leek Mash and Mustard Sauce

A fast and fabulous after-work supper that looks good enough to grace any restaurant table

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Leek and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Leek + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Potato + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

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

  4. Potato + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Potato + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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