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Stuffed Baked Sweet Potatoes with Pecans

"We serve this amazing dish with ham. It makes 6 little mini sweet potato casseroles without all the mess!"

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Stuffed Baked Sweet Potatoes with Pecans

Why it works: Sweet potato and pecans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Stuffed Baked Sweet Potatoes with Pecans

6 potatoes
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr 12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

365Calories
6 gProtein
14 gFat
59 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Pecan1 half (4g)20

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. Sweet potato + pecanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Sweet potato + pineappletop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Pineapple + pecanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Pumpkinfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

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