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Wasabi Mashed Potatoes

"These potatoes are slightly green, slightly spicy, and beautifully fragrant with roasted garlic. Good compliment to meat and fish cooked with ginger - soy marinades. The leftovers make great potato pancakes!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and wasabi work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

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. Heat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Cut the top off the garlic head, drizzle the exposed cloves with olive oil, wrap in foil, and roast for 35 minutes until very soft.

  2. While the garlic roasts, peel the potatoes and cut them into even chunks. Place in a pot, cover with water, add a pinch of salt, and boil for 15 to 20 minutes until fork-tender.

  3. Drain the potatoes well and return them to the pot over low heat for 1 minute to dry out.

  4. Warm the milk gently in a small pan. Squeeze the roasted garlic from its skins into a bowl and mash it smooth.

  5. Mash the potatoes with the softened butter, wasabi powder, warm milk, and mashed garlic until smooth. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve hot.

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. Potato + wasabitop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Garlic + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  5. Olive + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, potato, butter, wasabi, milk, pepper):

  1. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, potato, butter, wasabi, milk, pepper. 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).