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Two-Potato Salad with Creole Mustard, Bacon, and Arugula

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Why it works: Mustard and arugula work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 158 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

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Serves 6 to 8

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

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By epicurious. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mustard + arugulatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together158 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Celery + tarragontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together334 recipes

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

  3. Celery + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,160 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Mustard + tarragontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  5. Celery + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, celery, mustard, tarragon, pepper, arugula):

  1. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  2. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, celery, mustard, tarragon, pepper, arugula. 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).