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Mama’s Homemade French Fries with Aoili Dipping Sauce

Move over fast food, here come some home-cooked taters that families are going to rave about! Not only are the fries fabulous, but an amazing dipping sauce sits on the side. What? You’ve never had aoili? You need to change that—right now! Aoili is a garlicky, lemony sauce that is oh-so-delish! Enjoy these amazing fries this week to surprise your family.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Mama’s Homemade French Fries with Aoili Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Sugar and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,147 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Mama’s Homemade French Fries with Aoili Dipping Sauce

Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

336Calories
4 gProtein
14 gFat
51 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

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.

  1. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Potato + clovetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Potato + saucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + clovetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together17,182 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Clove + saucetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,089 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sugar and clove barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 17,182 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (sugar, potato, sauce):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, potato, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.