Name: Stuffed Potato Balls
Ingredients: white potatoes; seasoned chopped meat (any kind)

Why it works: Potato and meat work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 786 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Stuffed Potato Balls

Ingredients

white potatoes
seasoned chopped meat (any kind)

Directions

Take a large tablespoon of cooked white potatoes and flatten it out.
Place a large teaspoon of well-seasoned chopped meat in the center.
Fold the potato over the meat to enclose it.
Roll the stuffed potato ball, dip it in batter, and fry until golden brown.

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.

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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.

Potato + meattop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together786 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

White potatoes: Form the soft outer shell that encloses the meat filling.
Seasoned chopped meat: Provides the savory filling at the center of each ball.

“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.