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Root Vegetable Bake

"Vegetable mix baked to perfection. I go through phases of wanting just vegetables for a main dish. My mom gave me this recipe and she got it from a friend. It's simple to do; peel and cut the vegetables and put them in a casserole dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Yam and jicama share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep25 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) and lightly oil a large baking dish.

  2. Peel and chop the yam, parsnip, jicama and turnips, and slice the carrots. Cube the red potatoes so the pieces are roughly the same size as the other vegetables.

  3. In a large bowl, toss all the vegetables with the olive oil, minced garlic, minced rosemary and sea salt until evenly coated.

  4. Spread the vegetables in a single layer in the prepared baking dish, using two dishes if needed so they are not crowded.

  5. Roast for about 35 minutes, stirring once halfway through, until the vegetables are tender when pierced with a fork and the edges are golden.

  6. Taste and adjust the rosemary or salt if needed, then serve hot.

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. Yam + jicamatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,096 recipes

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

  3. Parsnip + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together589 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Rosemary + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the jicama

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, yam, carrot, parsnip, turnip, rosemary, olive):

  1. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Beetrootbetter flavor fit
  3. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  4. Jicamathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, yam, carrot, parsnip, turnip, rosemary, olive. 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).