Name: Bubble & Squeak with Crisp Bacon Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 1 potatoes, peeled & cut into equal chunks; kg butter; 50 olive or rapeseed oil; g onions, chopped; 2 smoked lardons, or chopped streaky bacon; tbsp Tenderstem, cut into bite sized pieces; 2 salt & freshly ground black pepper; 150 olive or rapeseed oil

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 ↓

Bubble & Squeak with Crisp Bacon Recipe

4 people

Prep30 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

1 potatoes, peeled & cut into equal chunks
kg butter
50 olive or rapeseed oil
g onions, chopped
2 smoked lardons, or chopped streaky bacon
tbsp Tenderstem, cut into bite sized pieces
2 salt & freshly ground black pepper
150 olive or rapeseed oil

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

360Calories

9 gProtein

16 gFat

49 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Rapeseed Oil	not in our table	0

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

By lovefood. 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.

Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 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).
Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,779 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,305 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the onion

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

Capsicumfits better
Tomatofits better
Chivefits about as well
Onionthe original

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

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