Name: Bacon and Potato Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 15 New Potatoes; 2 packs green beans (add more or less); 1 bowl Broad beans ( add more or less); 1 Packet bacon diced (add more or less); 3-4 tablespoons light mayonnaise; 2 Tablespoons cress

Why it works: Potato and green beans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 81 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

15 New Potatoes
2 packs green beans (add more or less)
1 bowl Broad beans (add more or less)
1 Packet bacon diced (add more or less)
3-4 tablespoons light mayonnaise
2 Tablespoons cress

Directions

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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.

Potato + green beanstop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together81 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Green beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together36 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Potato + beanstop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together655 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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