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St Patrick's Day Casserole

"A tasty way to eat corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes...perfect for a St. Patrick's Day feast, or simply good eating any other time!"

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Why it works: Swiss cheese and white wine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 101 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with butter-flavored cooking spray.

  2. Put the potato cubes in a pan of boiling water and cook for about 8 minutes, until nearly tender. Drain well.

  3. Put the chopped cabbage in a pot with a splash of water, cover, and steam for about 4 minutes until wilted. Drain.

  4. In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, cabbage, corned beef cubes, Swiss cheese, coarse-grained mustard, white wine, garlic powder, and black pepper. Toss until evenly mixed.

  5. Spread the mixture evenly into the prepared baking dish and press it down lightly.

  6. Lay the phyllo sheets over the top one at a time, lightly spraying each with butter-flavored cooking spray and tucking the edges into the dish. Brush the top with melted butter.

  7. Bake uncovered for about 35 minutes, until the phyllo is golden and the casserole is heated through to 165°F (74°C).

  8. Let rest for 10 minutes, then cut into 8 portions and serve.

By allrecipes. 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. Swiss cheese + white winetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Potato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Cabbage + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,645 recipes

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

  4. Butter + swiss cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Potato + beeftop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,051 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, butter, beef, swiss cheese, mustard, white wine, garlic):

  1. Onionbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Chivebetter flavor fit
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, butter, beef, swiss cheese, mustard, white wine, garlic. 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).