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Chipotle Potato Salad with Jicama

A potato salad with chipotle, eggs, mayonnaise, and vegetables.

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Why it works: Potato and jicama work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Time1 hour

Ingredients

Contains: egg (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Cook the potatoes and eggs

  1. Cook potatoes in a saucepan of salted boiling water until tender, then drain and cool.

  2. Cut into cubes, leaving skins on.

  3. Place eggs in a saucepan, add enough cold water to cover eggs, bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer 10 min.

  4. Drain and cool under cold running water, then peel and chop.

Dress and chill

  1. Stir together mayonnaise, chiles, adobo sauce, vinegar and salt in a bowl.

  2. Add potatoes, eggs, celery, onion, jicama and cilantro and toss until coated.

  3. Cover and refrigerate 1 hour.

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Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Potato + jicamatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

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

  3. Potato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,045 recipes

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

  4. Celery + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,506 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. White wine + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Red potatoes
Provide the bulk of the salad, holding their shape when cooked and cubed.
Large eggs
Add richness and a creamy texture when chopped into the salad.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and moisture, binding the salad into a creamy dressing.
Chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
Supply smoky heat and depth of flavor to the dressing.
White wine vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the rich mayonnaise dressing.

The step that matters

Cool the potatoes and eggs fully before dressing. Warm potatoes absorb dressing unevenly and can make mayonnaise separate or turn greasy. Cooling them thoroughly lets the dressing coat each piece evenly and keeps the salad creamy.

Flavor stand-ins for the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, egg, sauce, white wine, vinegar, onion, jicama):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, egg, sauce, white wine, vinegar, onion, jicama. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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