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Broiled and Slow-Roasted Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Cumin and Garlic

"Who says making a feast has to take forever? For large gatherings like Passover and Easter, leg of lamb is the roast of choice, and arranged on a platter garnished with herbs, it makes a stunning centerpiece. Buying leg of lamb butterflied from the butcher will leave you time to socialize while it is slow-roasting without worrying about uneven cooking."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and lamb work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 492 recipes mention both. Both carry sabinene, which smells woody, terpenic. The science ↓

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12 - 14 servings

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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. Cumin + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  2. Cumin + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, pepper, cumin, oregano, lamb, lemon):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, pepper, cumin, oregano, lamb, lemon. 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).