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Blue Cheese Fried Potatoes

"My husband and developed this recipe to go with steaks as an alternative to mashed potatoes."

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Why it works: Potato and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 50 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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.

  1. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat.

  2. Add the sliced potatoes and onion rings to the skillet in a single layer, season with salt and black pepper, and cover.

  3. Cook for about 10 minutes, then flip the potatoes and onions and cook uncovered for another 10 minutes, until golden and tender.

  4. Sprinkle the blue cheese crumbles and crumbled bacon over the potatoes and onions.

  5. Cover the skillet for 2 to 3 minutes until the cheese softens, then serve hot.

By allrecipes. 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 + blue cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together50 recipes

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

  2. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

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

  3. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Potato + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,303 recipes

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

  5. Butter + potatotop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,445 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, potato, blue cheese, pepper):

  1. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Onionthe original
  3. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, potato, blue cheese, pepper. 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).