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Grilled Yams

"My husband never liked yams until I served them to him this way. The yams create their own glaze on the grill. You can add more herbs and spices to suit your own taste."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Grilled Yams

Why it works: Yam and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Grilled Yams

4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

106Calories
0 gProtein
12 gFat
0 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Olive1 large (4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Yamnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Yam + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Yam + buttertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the yam

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, butter):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Yamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.