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Dutch Fried Potatoes

A fried potato dish with onions, egg, and seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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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 ↓

Dutch Fried Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Fry the potatoes

  1. Fry the chopped onion in pork fat or butter until soft.

  2. Add the sliced raw potatoes, salt, and pepper, and fry until golden brown.

Add the egg and serve

  1. Beat the egg lightly and pour it over the potatoes.

  2. Serve immediately in a hot dish.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

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. Potato + porktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Onion + porktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sliced raw potatoes
Form the bulk of the dish and brown in the hot fat, giving crisp golden edges.
Egg
Lightly beaten and poured over the potatoes, it sets to bind them together with a soft, moist texture.
Chopped onion
Softens in the fat, adding a mild, sweet aroma that flavours the potatoes.
Pork fat or butter
Conducts heat for frying and adds richness and flavour that helps the potatoes brown.

The step that matters

Serve immediately in a hot dish. The beaten egg continues to set as it cools, so the dish turns firm and dry if it waits. Serving it hot while the egg is still soft keeps the texture moist and tender.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, pepper, egg, pork):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, pepper, egg, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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