Name: Best Breakfast Potatoes Ever
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 bag (5 Pounds) Red Potatoes, Cut Into Chunks; 4 cloves Garlic, Minced; 1 whole Onion, Peeled And Roughly Chopped; 1 whole Green Bell Pepper, Seeded And Roughly Chopped; 1 whole Red Bell Pepper, Seeded And Roughly Chopped; ¼ cups Olive Oil; ½ sticks Butter, Melted; 1 teaspoon Seasoned Salt; ½ teaspoons Cayenne Pepper

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Best Breakfast Potatoes Ever

Serves 12

Prep15 min

Cook45 min

Ingredients

1 bag (5 Pounds) Red Potatoes, Cut Into Chunks
4 cloves Garlic, Minced
1 whole Onion, Peeled And Roughly Chopped
1 whole Green Bell Pepper, Seeded And Roughly Chopped
1 whole Red Bell Pepper, Seeded And Roughly Chopped
¼ cups Olive Oil
½ sticks Butter, Melted
1 teaspoon Seasoned Salt
½ teaspoons Cayenne Pepper

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

469Calories

7 gProtein

26 gFat

55 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the clove

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

Thymefits better
Parsleyfits better
Rosemaryfits better
Clovethe original

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

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