Name: Mom’s Breakfast Hash
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: ¼ cups Warm Water Plus Extra For The Veggies; 4 ounces, weight Pre-cooked Turkey Smoked Sausage Link, Sliced; 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil, Divided; ½ whole Onion, Chopped; 1 clove Garlic, Minced; 2 whole Potatoes, Diced; 1-½ teaspoon Salt, Or To Taste; ½ teaspoons Ground Black Pepper; 1 whole Egg, Cooked Over Medium (or Double This Amount If You Prefer To Scramble The Eggs)

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 ↓

Mom’s Breakfast Hash

Serves 2

Prep10 min

Cook20 min

Ingredients

¼ cups Warm Water Plus Extra For The Veggies
4 ounces, weight Pre-cooked Turkey Smoked Sausage Link, Sliced
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil, Divided
½ whole Onion, Chopped
1 clove Garlic, Minced
2 whole Potatoes, Diced
1-½ teaspoon Salt, Or To Taste
½ teaspoons Ground Black Pepper
1 whole Egg, Cooked Over Medium (or Double This Amount If You Prefer To Scramble The Eggs)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

878Calories

55 gProtein

50 gFat

52 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Smoked Sausage	100g cooked	301
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, olive, onion, garlic, potato, pepper, egg):

Thymefits better
Parsleyfits better
Rosemaryfits better
Clovethe original

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

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