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Foie Gras Salad with Sweet Potato Chips

A salad of mixed greens topped with sautéed foie gras, shallots, garlic, and balsamic sauce, garnished with sweet potato chips.

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Why it works: Shallot and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Foie Gras Salad with Sweet Potato Chips

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chips

  1. Thinly slice peeled sweet potatoes and deep fry in vegetable oil until crispy.

  2. Drain and season with kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper.

Cook and assemble

  1. Sauté foie gras in a smoking hot pan and remove from pan.

  2. Sauté shallots and garlic until translucent, deglaze with balsamic vinegar and reduce to sauce consistency.

  3. Add foie gras to sauce, toss and pour over mixed greens, then garnish with potato chips.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

218Calories
6 gProtein
0 gFat
50 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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.

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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. Shallot + sweet potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Garlic + sweet potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together631 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Foie gras
Melts into a rich, fatty warmth that gives the salad its luxurious body and flavor.
Balsamic vinegar
Adds acidity and sweetness, and reduces into a glossy sauce that coats the greens.
Shallots
Soften and turn sweet when cooked, adding aromatic depth to the sauce.
Sweet potato
Frying turns the thin slices crisp, providing contrast against the soft greens and foie gras.

The step that matters

Sautéing the foie gras in a smoking hot pan. Foie gras is very high in fat and can quickly over-render and turn greasy or bitter if overcooked. A very hot pan sears the outside fast, browning it while keeping the inside soft and creamy.

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shallot, garlic, vinegar, pepper):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shallot, garlic, vinegar, pepper. 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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