Name: The Morning After Frittata Recipe
Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Ingredients: 10 eggs with 4 egg yolks taken out and discarded; 4 medium to large red potatoes, sliced to 1/4 inches, parboiled; 1 large red onion, chopped; 1 red bell pepper; 3 cloves garlic, crushed; 1 jalapeno pepper sliced thinly; 2 large handfuls chopped spinach; 1 cup grated extra sharp cheddar cheese; 1/4 cup milk; 1 heaping tablespoon all purpose flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tbs mixed herbs; 3 tbs olive oil

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,435 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, potato, onion, pepper, clove, garlic, spinach):

Parsleybetter flavor fit
Cuminbetter flavor fit
Thymebetter flavor fit
Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, potato, onion, pepper, clove, garlic, spinach. 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).

The Morning After Frittata Recipe