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Quick Roast Lamb with Salsa Verde

A butterflied leg of lamb will cook more quickly - serve with an Italian green sauce of basil, parsley, anchovies and capers

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Quick Roast Lamb with Salsa Verde

Why it works: Shallot and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 405 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Quick Roast Lamb with Salsa Verde

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

474Calories
28 gProtein
35 gFat
15 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Seednot 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. Shallot + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Fennel + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Fennel + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + caperstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fennel, lemon, olive, lamb, shallot, garlic, capers):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fennel, lemon, olive, lamb, shallot, garlic, capers. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.