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Sweet Potatoes with Caramelized Onions

"Baked sweet potatoes are topped with slow cooked caramelized onions and red bell peppers. Serve with a dollop of sour cream or plain yogurt. Use large sweet potatoes for a delicious meatless main dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Sweet Potatoes with Caramelized Onions

Why it works: Sweet potato and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 950 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Sweet Potatoes with Caramelized Onions

2 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

461Calories
24 gProtein
15 gFat
60 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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.

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 + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Sweet potato + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together960 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the sweet potato

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

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