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Bara with Sweet Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 232 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Bara with Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

998Calories
22 gProtein
16 gFat
190 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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.

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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. Sweet potato + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Sweet potato + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Rice + cumintop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together933 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Sweet potato + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together627 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + cumintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,286 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, rice, flour, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Jalapenofits better
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, rice, flour, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.