Name: Stuffed Potato Balls
Ingredients: 1 large tablespoon white potatoes, prepared for croquettes; 1 large teaspoon well-seasoned chopped meat (any kind)

Stuffed Potato Balls

Stuffed potato balls made by flattening potatoes, filling with seasoned meat, folding, boiling, battering, and frying until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients

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

1 large tablespoon white potatoes, prepared for croquettes
1 large teaspoon well-seasoned chopped meat (any kind)

Directions

Prepare

Flatten the white potatoes.
Place the chopped meat in the center.
Fold the potatoes over the meat.

Cook and coat

Boil the stuffed potatoes.
Dip the stuffed potatoes in batter.
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 seasoned meat filling.
Chopped meat: Provides the savory, well-seasoned filling at the center of each croquette.

“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.