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Leslie's Salty Grilled Potatoes

"These fantastic grilled potatoes will have everyone eating the skin! But be careful, no other baked potato will do after this. So be prepared to make it again."

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Leslie's Salty Grilled Potatoes

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 ↓

Leslie's Salty Grilled Potatoes

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

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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 + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,090 recipes

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

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,456 recipes

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

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, butter, pepper):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Dillabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, butter, pepper. 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).