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Decadent Roast Potatoes Recipe

Plenty of us love our meat and potatoes, but sometimes a plain-old baked Russet gets a bit boring. Kick up your starch intake with this recipe that combines shallots...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,458 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Decadent Roast Potatoes Recipe

6-8 manly portions

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

769Calories
25 gProtein
53 gFat
48 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Potato + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together272 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Shallot + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

  5. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the shallot

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, olive, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.