Name: Baked Potato, Spinach and Feta Pie Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 4 medium sized fluffy King Edward potatoes; 2 medium onions, peeled and finey diced; 4 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped or crushed; 1 fennel seeds OR dried oregano; tsp water; 3 olive oil (plus extra for brushing); tbsp spinach, washed and dried, sliced into 2cm pieces; 1 feta cheese, cut or crumbled into 1cm pieces

Why it works: Potato and feta cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 98 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people

Prep25 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

4 medium sized fluffy King Edward potatoes
2 medium onions, peeled and finey diced
4 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped or crushed
1 fennel seeds OR dried oregano
tsp water
3 olive oil (plus extra for brushing)
tbsp spinach, washed and dried, sliced into 2cm pieces
1 feta cheese, cut or crumbled into 1cm pieces

Directions

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By lovefood. 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.

Potato + feta cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together98 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,030 recipes

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

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,438 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together9,019 recipes

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

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together2,433 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion, garlic, olive, spinach, feta cheese):

Cuminbetter flavor fit
Oreganobetter flavor fit
Thymebetter flavor fit
Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, garlic, olive, spinach, feta cheese. 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).

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