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Bulgur Hash

A skillet hash of bulgur, potatoes, onion, celery, garlic, paprika, and soy sauce simmered in vegetable broth.

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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Bulgur Hash

Timeabout 10 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat.

  2. Add onion and celery and cook, stirring often, until onion is softened, about 7 minutes.

  3. Stir in garlic and paprika, then stir in potatoes and bulgur until evenly coated.

Simmer and serve

  1. Stir soy sauce into broth and add to potato mixture along with salt.

  2. Season with freshly ground pepper to taste.

  3. Increase heat to high and bring to a boil.

  4. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer without lifting lid until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes.

  5. Remove from heat and gently fluff hash with a fork.

  6. Let stand, covered, 5 minutes.

  7. Serve hot.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

798Calories
20 gProtein
15 gFat
145 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Bulgurnot 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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Celery + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Bulgur
Absorbs the broth and swells as it cooks, giving the hash its body and chewy texture.
Potatoes
Turn tender while simmering and add starchy body that helps bind the hash.
Vegetable broth
Provides the cooking liquid that bulgur and potatoes absorb, carrying flavour through the dish.
Onion
Softens and sweetens as it cooks, forming the savoury base of the hash.
Olive oil
Carries heat evenly across the skillet and adds richness to the softened vegetables.

The step that matters

Simmer without lifting the lid. Lifting the lid lets steam escape, so the liquid cools and the bulgur and potatoes cook unevenly. Keeping the pan covered holds the heat and moisture needed to make them tender.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, celery, garlic, potato, bulgur, sauce, olive):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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