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French Potato Salad

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By delishhh · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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French Potato Salad

Why it works: White wine and champagne share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 96 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

French Potato Salad

6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

532Calories
37 gProtein
18 gFat
51 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Champagnenot 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.

By delishhh. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. White wine + champagnetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Potato + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

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

  4. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, chicken, champagne, vinegar, mustard, pepper, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, chicken, champagne, vinegar, mustard, pepper, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.