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Roasted Three-potato Salad

A roasted potato salad with olive oil, lemon pepper, red onion, celery, parsley, and honey‑mustard dressing.

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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Roasted Three-potato Salad

Oven425°F
Time30 to 40 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat oven to 425°F.

  2. Lightly spray a shallow baking pan with cooking spray.

  3. Cut potatoes into chunks about 1 ¼" in size.

  4. Arrange potatoes in a single layer on the baking pan.

Roast the potatoes

  1. Sprinkle with olive oil and lemon pepper seasoning, tossing to coat potatoes.

  2. Bake until potatoes are tender and golden, about 30 to 40 minutes, stirring halfway through cooking time.

  3. Remove from oven and cool 10 minutes.

Assemble and serve

  1. Transfer potatoes to a bowl.

  2. Add remaining ingredients and toss gently.

  3. Store covered in the refrigerator.

  4. Let stand at room temperature before serving.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

469Calories
7 gProtein
28 gFat
54 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
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salad Dressingnot 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.

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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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the salad; roasting browns their surface and gives a creamy interior.
Olive oil
Carries the seasoning and promotes browning and crisping on the potato surface.
Red onion
Adds sharp, pungent bite that mellows as it sits in the dressing.
Celery
Contributes crisp texture and a fresh, vegetal crunch to the salad.
Honey-mustard salad dressing
Supplies sweetness, tang and moisture that coat the warm potatoes.

The step that matters

Roasting until tender and golden. Stirring halfway helps the pieces brown evenly on all sides. Cooking long enough softens the starch so the interior turns creamy, while cutting the chunks uniformly keeps them cooking at the same rate.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, olive, lemon, pepper, celery, parsley, honey):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, olive, lemon, pepper, celery, parsley, honey. 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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