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Sara's Special Red Potato Salad

"Vanilla yogurt adds a different, healthy twist and tang to this light, delicious potato salad. It's great as a side dish or even an autumn picnic."

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Sara's Special Red Potato Salad

Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Sara's Special Red Potato Salad

6.5 cups
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

410Calories
25 gProtein
2 gFat
76 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot in our table0

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

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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.

  1. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  4. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  5. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, yogurt, onion, lemon, celery, carrot, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, yogurt, onion, lemon, celery, carrot, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.