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Sweet Potato Puff

"Creamy, fluffy, rich sweet potatoes with a meringue top. Enjoy sweet potatoes' natural sweetness without drowning it in sugar. This is everyone's favorite. We can't serve Thanksgiving dinner without it!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Sweet Potato Puff

Why it works: Sweet potato and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Puff

8 servings
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

478Calories
12 gProtein
20 gFat
67 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
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 + walnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

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

  2. Sweet potato + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Raisin + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Butter + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, egg, butter, raisin, sugar):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pecansfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

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