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Lamb and Spicy Sauce Ravioli.

a spicy lamb ravioli infused with herbs

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 979 recipes mention both. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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. Lamb + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Tomato + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,061 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Flour + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Tomato + sweetcorntop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together115 recipes

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

  5. Flour + sweetcorntop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together124 recipes

Flour and egg share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, egg, lamb, sweetcorn, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, lamb, sweetcorn, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).