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Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes

Smooth and creamy mashed potatoes with tangy goat cheese and snipped chives.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes

Why it works: Potato and chive work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 611 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes

Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

418Calories
11 gProtein
26 gFat
38 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 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.

  1. Potato + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together611 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + goat cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Butter + chivetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, butter, cream, goat cheese):

  1. Onionfits better
  2. Chivethe original
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Spinachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, butter, cream, goat cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.