Name: Mashed Potatoes with Mushroom Meat Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 4 whole Large Russet Potatoes; ¾ cups Diced Onions; ¼ cups Chopped Celery; 1-½ pound Ground Beef; 2 cans (10 3/4 Oz. Size) Cream Of Mushroom Soup; ½ cups Sour Cream; ¼ cups Chicken Broth; 3 Tablespoons Salt And Pepper, to taste; ¼ cups Butter

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 ↓

Mashed Potatoes with Mushroom Meat Sauce

Serves 4

Prep10 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

900Calories

83 gProtein

37 gFat

58 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soup	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 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.

Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,172 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).
Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,148 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,232 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16,012 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion, beef, cream, mushroom, chicken, pepper):

Garlicfits better
Thymefits about as well
Celerythe original
Rosemaryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, beef, cream, mushroom, chicken, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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