Name: Moroccan Potato Casserole
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 6 cloves garlic; salt to taste; 2 teaspoons paprika; 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin; 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper; 3/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro; 3/4 cup chopped parsley; 1 lemon, juiced; 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar; 3 tablespoons olive oil; 1 1/2 pounds red potatoes, sliced 1/2 inch thick; 1 large red bell pepper, cut into 1 inch pieces; 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into 1 1/2 inch squares; 1 large green bell pepper, cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces; 4 stalks celery, cut into 2 inch pieces; 1 pound tomatoes, each cut into 8 wedges; 2 tablespoons olive oil

Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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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.

Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Cumin + parsleytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together821 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, garlic, cumin, pepper, parsley, red wine, vinegar):

Limefits better
Lemonthe original
Plumfits less well
Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, garlic, cumin, pepper, parsley, red wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Cayenne	1 tsp (1.8g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Moroccan Potato Casserole