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Potato and Turnip Crisps

These homemade vegetable crisps up the culinary ante at parties, barbecues and gatherings.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potato and Turnip Crisps

Serves 2-3
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

239Calories
7 gProtein
0 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Turnip1 medium (122g)34
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcfood. 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.

  1. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Potato + sunflowertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Potato + turniptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together562 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Sunflower + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together989 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the turnip

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Turnipthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, sunflower, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.