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Hash Browns with Mustard & Smoked Salmon

This brilliant brunch dish is especially sensational served with poached eggs

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Hash Browns with Mustard & Smoked Salmon

Why it works: Mustard and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 587 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Hash Browns with Mustard & Smoked Salmon

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

981Calories
38 gProtein
32 gFat
133 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Smoked Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Horseradishnot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0

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

By bbcgoodfood. 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. Mustard + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Potato + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together611 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Mustard + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Sunflower + chivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Potato + sunflowertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, flour, butter, sunflower, salmon, cream, chive):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, flour, butter, sunflower, salmon, cream, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.