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Slow Cooker Sausage, Hash Brown & Cheddar Breakfast Casserole

An easy overnight breakfast casserole that can be made in your slow cooker with layers of hash browns, cheese, and breakfast sausage.

By browneyedbaker · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Sausage, Hash Brown & Cheddar Breakfast Casserole

Why it works: Onion and garlic 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 ↓

Slow Cooker Sausage, Hash Brown & Cheddar Breakfast Casserole

10 to 12 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

636Calories
50 gProtein
37 gFat
26 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
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 browneyedbaker. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Cheddar cheese + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Onion + cheddar cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,669 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 garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, cheddar cheese, egg, milk, pepper):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Dillfits about as well
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, cheddar cheese, egg, milk, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.