Name: New Potatoes with Dill Butter
Yield: Makes 6 to 8 servings
Ingredients: 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature; 2 tablespoons (packed) coarsely chopped fresh dill plus more for garnish; Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper; 2 pounds new potatoes or other small potatoes; 1 tablespoon crushed toasted caraway seeds (optional)

Why it works: Dill and caraway share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

New Potatoes with Dill Butter

Makes 6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 tablespoons (packed) coarsely chopped fresh dill plus more for garnish
Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper
2 pounds new potatoes or other small potatoes
1 tablespoon crushed toasted caraway seeds (optional)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

273Calories

5 gProtein

12 gFat

39 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Caraway	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Dill + carawaytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together47 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Dill + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together423 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,630 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,305 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + carawaytop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together115 recipes

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

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

Swap the caraway

The recipe marks caraway as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, dill, pepper, potato):

Parsleyfits better
Thymefits better
Tarragonfits better
Carawaythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, dill, pepper, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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