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Greek Potato Salad Recipe with Feta Cheese, Kalamata Olives & Oregano Dressing

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and feta cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 98 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients

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

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By cookincanuck. 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 + feta cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Olive + feta cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Lemon + oreganotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together784 recipes

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

  5. Oregano + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, oregano, pepper, olive, potato, feta cheese):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, oregano, pepper, olive, potato, feta cheese. 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).