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By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 938 recipes mention both. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

serves 15-18 (depending on how hungry your guests are)
Prep20 min
Cook3 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By steamykitchen. 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 + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + srirachatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,862 recipes

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

  5. Potato + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,229 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sriracha

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, corn, garlic, lemon):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Srirachathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, corn, garlic, lemon. 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).