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Seared Cod Salad with ‘scad the Beggars’, Potato Farls and Wild Garlic

‘Scad the beggars’ is a Northern Irish dish of oats fried in bacon fat - used here as an alternative to croutons in this hearty salad.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,512 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By bbcfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Potato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Chive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chive + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together611 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Potato + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chive

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

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Chivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, potato, oats, pepper, olive, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).