Why it works: Potato and chive work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 611 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓
The recipe
Serves 4Ingredients
Contains: milk (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.
Put the sliced potatoes in a large pan of boiling water and simmer for 10 to 12 minutes until tender. Drain well and return them to the pan.
While the potatoes cook, heat the vegetable oil in a large deep frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the sausages and cook, breaking them up, for 6 to 8 minutes until browned and cooked through to 160°F (71°C) in the thickest part.
Add the sliced red peppers and crushed garlic to the pan and cook for 2 minutes, stirring. Stir in the ground coriander, chilli powder and ground cumin and cook for 1 minute.
Add the chopped tomatoes, rinsed kidney beans and caster sugar. Simmer gently for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened.
Mash the drained potatoes with the Greek yogurt and most of the snipped chives until creamy but still a little chunky.
Serve the chilli with the creamy chive potatoes on the side, sprinkled with the remaining chives.
Explore the science
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.
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Potato + chivetop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together611 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Coriander + cumintop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3,866 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Coriander + tomatotop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3,966 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
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Cumin + tomatotop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together3,272 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Garlic + chivetop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,148 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 kidney beans
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, potato, pepper, garlic, coriander, cumin, tomato):
- Beansbetter flavor fit
- Chickpeabetter flavor fit
- Peanutbetter flavor fit
- Kidney beansthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against pork, potato, pepper, garlic, coriander, cumin, tomato. 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).
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