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Rainbow Potato Salad

The prettiest potato salad with pre-roasted potatoes and a Greek yogurt dressing. Just the right amount of tang without being too rich. Perfect use of leftover roasted potatoes.

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Why it works: Potato and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,512 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Cut the salted pre-cooked potatoes into bite-sized pieces, leaving the skins on, and place them in a large serving bowl.

  2. In a small bowl, mash the roasted garlic cloves with a fork until smooth, then stir in the Greek yogurt, lemon juice, anchovy paste and black pepper.

  3. Add the finely chopped capers to the yogurt dressing and mix until evenly combined.

  4. Pour the dressing over the potatoes and gently toss until every piece is coated, taking care not to break them up.

  5. Sprinkle the paprika over the top, then chill the salad for at least 30 minutes before serving so the flavors blend.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Potato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  3. Pepper + clovetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Yogurt + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  5. Anchovy + caperstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, pepper, lemon, anchovy, capers, potato, garlic):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Dillbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, pepper, lemon, anchovy, capers, potato, garlic. 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).