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Blue Cheese Potatoes Delmonico

"Here's a recipe that I recently made for a dinner party. Everyone loved it served with rib-eye steak. Goes really well. The blue cheese makes all the difference."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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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

6 servings
Prep30 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Place the peeled, cubed potatoes in a pan of boiling water and cook for 10 to 12 minutes, until tender. Drain well.

  2. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour and cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly.

  3. Gradually whisk in the milk and cream. Simmer over medium-low heat for about 5 minutes, stirring often, until the sauce thickens.

  4. Remove the sauce from the heat and stir in the crumbled blue cheese until melted and smooth.

  5. Spread the drained potatoes in a baking dish and pour the blue cheese sauce evenly over them.

  6. Sprinkle the bread crumbs over the top. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until golden and bubbling. Let rest 5 minutes before serving.

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. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Potato + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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