Why it works: Potato and artichoke work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Potatoes a LA Rose
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare a potato puree and color part of it pale pink.
Fill a piping bag with the pink puree on one side and the plain puree on the other.
Place heated artichoke bottoms on a hot dish.
Pipe the potato mixture to form a rose on each artichoke bottom.
Serve with a little good sauce or as a side to a main dish.
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.
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Potato + artichoketop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together80 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together6,456 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together15,338 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Artichoke + buttertop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together893 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
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Artichoke + saucetop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together462 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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 (artichoke, butter, sauce):
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- Potatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, butter, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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