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Warm Potato & Rollmop Salad

A chunky, filling salad full of omega-3's. Rollmops or pilchards can be used, or for the less daring cook, tinned sardines are also good

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Warm Potato & Rollmop Salad

Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Warm Potato & Rollmop Salad

Serves 2
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

211Calories
6 gProtein
0 gFat
47 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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 (onion, red wine, vinegar, mustard):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Broccolifits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, red wine, vinegar, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.