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Roasted Root Vegetables with Apple Juice

"Caramelized roasted vegetables made with a white wine syrup."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and rutabaga work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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8 serving

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Sweet potato + rutabagatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsnip + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Turnip + parsniptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together589 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + carrottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Parsnip + rutabagatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, apple, white wine, turnip, parsnip, carrot, rutabaga):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Beetrootbetter flavor fit
  3. Leekabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, apple, white wine, turnip, parsnip, carrot, rutabaga. 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).