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Rack of Lamb with Warm Salad of Mixed Beans & Slow-roast Tomatoes

Tender, lean lamb and a selection of the finest vegetables makes this a romantic dish you won't forget

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Rack of Lamb with Warm Salad of Mixed Beans & Slow-roast Tomatoes

Why it works: Thyme and basil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,768 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Rack of Lamb with Warm Salad of Mixed Beans & Slow-roast Tomatoes

Serves 2
Prep40 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

630Calories
29 gProtein
47 gFat
25 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Broad Beannot in our table0
Beannot 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. Thyme + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,979 recipes

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

  4. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, tomato, thyme, garlic, clove, vinegar, basil):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, tomato, thyme, garlic, clove, vinegar, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.