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Chargrilled Lamb with Lentils, Broad Beans & Feta

Combine Puy lentils, shallots, mint and parsley then top with tender grilled lamb cutlets for a fresh and tasty supper

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Chargrilled Lamb with Lentils, Broad Beans & Feta

Why it works: Lentils and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chargrilled Lamb with Lentils, Broad Beans & Feta

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

652Calories
41 gProtein
44 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lamb100g cooked294
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Broad Beannot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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. Lentils + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lentils + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Beans + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

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

  5. Lentils + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lentils, beans, shallot, parsley, feta cheese, olive, red wine):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lentils, beans, shallot, parsley, feta cheese, olive, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.