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Potato Caraway Cakes

In this recipe from Chef Bryan Voltaggio, russet potatoes are baked, then grated and combined with shallots, caraway seed and other seasonings. The mixture is molded into cakes and deep-fried. Serve these crispy potato cakes alongside Bryan’s Grilled Filets Mignons with Caramelized Onion and Mushroom Sauce (see related recipe at left).

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and caraway work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 115 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

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

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By williamssonoma. 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 + carawaytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  2. Tarragon + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together884 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + tarragontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Tarragon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,691 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 shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, egg, tarragon, caraway, pepper, lemon, olive):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, egg, tarragon, caraway, pepper, lemon, olive. 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).