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Why it works: Potato and jicama work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Contains: egg, wheat, soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 + jicamatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chayote + jicamatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Chicken + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  5. Lettuce + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chayote

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, lettuce, sesame, sherry, sauce, chicken, onion):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Chayotethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, lettuce, sesame, sherry, sauce, chicken, onion. 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).