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'Bonfire Jacket' Potatoes with Cheese and Kidney Beans Recipe

“This is a great autumnal supper or lunch dish and certainly one that kids will love too.”

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheddar cheese and kidney beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 139 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

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.

  1. Cheddar cheese + kidney beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + cheddar cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together932 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Cheddar cheese + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,669 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Kidney beans + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, cheddar cheese, sweetcorn, kidney beans):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, cheddar cheese, sweetcorn, kidney beans. 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).