Name: Dasheen Salad, Garnished with Lettuce and Minced Parsley
Ingredients: 2 cups boiled dasheens, riced; 1 cup bread or cracker crumbs; 1 egg; 2 tablespoons butter; Salt, to taste; Pepper, to taste; Sage, to taste; Onion, to taste

Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Dasheen Salad, Garnished with Lettuce and Minced Parsley

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

In a bowl, combine the riced dasheens, bread or cracker crumbs, egg, and butter.
Season the mixture with salt, pepper, sage, and onion to taste. Mix well until all ingredients are combined.

Use

Use this mixture as a filling for fowl or other meats.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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.

Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,388 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Sage + oniontop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,628 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Dasheens: Provide the starchy, bulky base that gives the mixture its body.
Bread or cracker crumbs: Absorb moisture and add body so the mixture holds together.
Egg: Binds the ingredients together and helps the mixture set when cooked.
Butter: Adds fat for richness and a softer, moister texture.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, egg, butter, pepper, sage):

Capsicumfits better
Shallotfits better
Chivefits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, egg, butter, pepper, sage. 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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Dasheen Salad, Garnished with Lettuce and Minced Parsley