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Green Pepper and Potato Salad

A salad of finely chopped baked potatoes and Spanish onion, layered with green pepper rings on lettuce leaves and topped with red mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Green Pepper and Potato Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the baked potatoes and Spanish onion very finely.

  2. Slice the green pepper into large rings.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place the rings on lettuce leaves and fill them with the potato and onion mixture.

  2. Heap red mayonnaise on top of each filled ring and serve.

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.

  1. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Potato + lettucetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Onion + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,562 recipes

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

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Baked potatoes
Provide the bulk of the salad, giving a soft, starchy filling.
Spanish onion
Adds sharp flavour and aroma to the potato filling.
Green pepper
Forms the edible rings that hold the filling, adding crisp texture.
Red mayonnaise
Adds creamy richness and moisture over the filling.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion, pepper):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, 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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