Name: Perfect Roast Potatoes
Prep time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 16 potatoes the best ones to use are Desirée, as they hold their shape, but King Edward and Maris Piper are also good; 2 tbsp plain flour; 140g goose fat or duck fat or dripping; 3 tbsp sunflower oil or vegetable oil

Why it works: Potato and sunflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Perfect Roast Potatoes

Serves 8

Prep10 min

Ingredients

16 potatoes the best ones to use are Desirée, as they hold their shape, but King Edward and Maris Piper are also good
2 tbsp plain flour
140g goose fat or duck fat or dripping
3 tbsp sunflower oil or vegetable oil

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1072Calories

36 gProtein

43 gFat

132 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Duck	100g cooked with skin	337
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Goose	not in our table	0
Dripping	not in our table	0
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0

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.

Potato + sunflowertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together303 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Flour + sunflowertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together803 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,355 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sunflower):

Beetrootfits better
Parsnipfits better
Kalefits better
Potatothe original

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

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