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Easter Leftovers Casserole

"This recipe combines leftover ham and mashed potatoes with cheese, garlic, and vegetables to make a delicious casserole the whole family will love."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Easter Leftovers Casserole

Why it works: Potato and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,517 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Easter Leftovers Casserole

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

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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. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, milk, ham, garlic, cream, mushroom, butter):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, milk, ham, garlic, cream, mushroom, butter. 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).