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Why it works: Sweet potato and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 192 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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Makes 16 servings

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

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By epicurious. 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. Sweet potato + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together192 recipes

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

  2. Sweet potato + yamtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,188 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Thyme + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together442 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Yam + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sweet potato, yam, celery, thyme, orange, egg):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sweet potato, yam, celery, thyme, orange, egg. 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).