Name: Latke and Smoked Salmon Stacks
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 cup Plain Greek Yogurt; ½ whole Hothouse Cucumber, Washed, Grated And Squeezed Dry; 1 Tablespoon Fresh Lemon Juice; 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 1 Tablespoon Chopped Dill; 3 pounds Russet Potatoes, Peeled And Grated; ½ teaspoons Kosher Salt; ¼ teaspoons Freshly Ground Black Pepper; ¼ cups Vegetable Oil; ½ pounds Smoked Salmon, Very Thinly Sliced; ¼ cups Fresh Dill Sprigs, For Garnish

Why it works: Lemon and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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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.

Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together976 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cucumber + dilltop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together530 recipes

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

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Dill + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together423 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,630 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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, cucumber, lemon, olive, dill, pepper, salmon):

Chivefits better
Tomatofits better
Broccolifits about as well
Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, cucumber, lemon, olive, dill, pepper, salmon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Smoked Salmon	100g cooked	208
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Latke and Smoked Salmon Stacks