Name: Smoky Potato Salad with Tuna
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1-½ pound Small Red Potatoes, Cleaned; ¼ cups Sherry Vinegar; ¼ cups Olive Oil; 2 teaspoons Dijon Mustard; 1 teaspoon Salt; ½ teaspoons Pepper; ½ teaspoons Smoked Paprika; 1 whole Medium Red Onion, Sliced Very Thin; 1 whole Large Orange Bell Pepper, Seeded And Sliced Very Thin; 1 can (5 Oz. Size) Tuna With Chipotle In Olive Oil; 6 cups Fresh Baby Spinach, Or As Desired; ½ cups Slivered Almonds, Toasted

Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

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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.

Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,259 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,458 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Potato + mustardtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,340 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,067 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, sherry, vinegar, olive, mustard, pepper, onion):

Avocadofits better
Limefits better
Cherryfits better
Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, sherry, vinegar, olive, mustard, pepper, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Orange Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Almond	1 almond (1.2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Smoky Potato Salad with Tuna