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Super Cheesy Potatoes

"My mother-in-law has made this for years and everyone always loves it. Simple to make and very flexible. Let it burn a little on top, that's the good part!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Super Cheesy Potatoes

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Super Cheesy Potatoes

12 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr 45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1093Calories
39 gProtein
40 gFat
145 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Saucenot 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, cheese, butter, flour, sauce):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cheese, butter, flour, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.