Name: Sausage and Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1 pound Ground Sausage Meat (I Used Mild, Italian Sausage); 1 Red Pepper, Stem And Seeds Removed, Diced; 2 cloves Garlic, Minced; 8 Eggs; ½ cups Milk; ½ teaspoons Garlic Powder (optional); 3 cups Freshly Shredded Cheddar Cheese Plus More For Topping If Desired; ½ bags Salt And Pepper, to taste

Why it works: Pepper and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Sausage and Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole

Serves 8

Prep15 min

Cook1 hr

Ingredients

1 pound Ground Sausage Meat (I Used Mild, Italian Sausage)
1 Red Pepper, Stem And Seeds Removed, Diced
2 cloves Garlic, Minced
8 Eggs
½ cups Milk
½ teaspoons Garlic Powder (optional)
3 cups Freshly Shredded Cheddar Cheese Plus More For Topping If Desired
½ bags Salt And Pepper, to taste

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

901Calories

61 gProtein

64 gFat

19 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 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
Sausage	100g cooked	301
Pork	100g cooked	242
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Cheddar Cheese	1 oz (28g)	113
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Meat	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Topping	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.

Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,090 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Milk + cheddar cheesetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,964 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Garlic + cheddar cheesetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,633 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the garlic

The recipe marks garlic as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, pepper, clove, egg, milk, cheddar cheese):

Nutmegfits better
Cinnamonfits better
Allspicefits better
Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, pepper, clove, egg, milk, cheddar cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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