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Potato Samosa Phyllo Triangles

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 9,019 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 2 dozen

Ingredients

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

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

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

  2. Cumin + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,866 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Potato + peastop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Potato + coriandertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,213 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  5. Onion + cumintop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion, cumin, coriander, butter):

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, cumin, coriander, butter. 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).