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Leek, Potato & Ham Flip-over Pie

This warming winter recipe is a great way to use up the Christmas leftovers, and so easy to make. Perfect for Boxing Day

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Why it works: Potato and leek share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Cut the cooked potatoes into small cubes. Put the sliced leek in a small pan with a splash of water, cover, and cook gently for 5 minutes until soft. Drain well.

  3. In a bowl, mix the crème fraîche, horseradish sauce and dried thyme. Stir in the chopped ham, potatoes and leek until evenly combined.

  4. Unroll the puff pastry onto the lined baking sheet. Spread the filling over the centre, leaving a border of about 3cm (1 inch) all around.

  5. Fold the pastry border up and over the filling to enclose it partly, pleating the corners as needed. Brush the exposed pastry with the milk.

  6. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until the pastry is puffed and golden and the filling is heated through. Rest for 5 minutes before slicing.

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

  1. Potato + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

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

  2. Leek + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together360 recipes

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

  3. Potato + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Potato + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Potato + horseradishtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, leek, sauce, ham, thyme, milk):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, leek, sauce, ham, thyme, milk. 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).