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Neeps & Tatties

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Neeps & Tatties

Why it works: Potato and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 6,456 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Neeps & Tatties

8-10 as a side

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By jamieoliver. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Potato + white peppertop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. White pepper + buttertop 28% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

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

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).