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 servingsIngredients
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.
Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with butter-flavored cooking spray.
Put the potato cubes in a pan of boiling water and cook for about 8 minutes, until nearly tender. Drain well.
Put the chopped cabbage in a pot with a splash of water, cover, and steam for about 4 minutes until wilted. Drain.
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.
Spread the mixture evenly into the prepared baking dish and press it down lightly.
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.
Bake uncovered for about 35 minutes, until the phyllo is golden and the casserole is heated through to 165°F (74°C).
Let rest for 10 minutes, then cut into 8 portions and serve.
Explore the science
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.
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Swiss cheese + white winetop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together101 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).
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Potato + garlictop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together4,512 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Cabbage + mustardtop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,645 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Butter + swiss cheesetop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together412 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Potato + beeftop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned 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):
- Onionbetter flavor fit
- Tomatobetter flavor fit
- Chivebetter flavor fit
- 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).
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