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Baked Tater Tots with Smoked Gouda & Green Apple

Easy homemade tater tots with smoked Gouda cheese and green apple!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Baked Tater Tots with Smoked Gouda & Green Apple

Why it works: Apple and cheese work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 294 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Tater Tots with Smoked Gouda & Green Apple

Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

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

  1. Apple + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together294 recipes

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

  2. Potato + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together603 recipes

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

  3. Potato + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together959 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, cheese):

  1. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Mustardabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, 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).