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Gourmet Mashed Potatoes

This is my momma’s famous mashed potato recipe! She makes it every Christmas and Easter. The key here, in addition to all the fabulous dairy products, is that you boil, then mash, then bake the potatoes. This creates a buttery, crispy outer shell, hiding soft creamy homemade mashed potatoes under the surface.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Gourmet Mashed Potatoes

Why it works: Potato and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,517 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Gourmet Mashed Potatoes

Serves 10
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

466Calories
23 gProtein
22 gFat
46 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 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
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Toppingnot 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. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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

  5. Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

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

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 (potato, butter, cream cheese, cream):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Dillfits about as well
  4. Capersfits about as well

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