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Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

"This creamy sweet potato recipe is a huge hit with everyone. A friend served a version of these at a luncheon, and I absolutely loved it. I found some sweet potatoes in my fridge that I hadn't used and decided to try it. Everyone at work flipped over them! They're great with pork chops or steak, too!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

Why it works: Sweet potato and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 189 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

12 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr 5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

574Calories
7 gProtein
38 gFat
54 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot in our table0

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 + vanillatop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Sweet potato + walnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,730 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Cream cheese + walnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, pepper, walnut):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatothe original
  3. Lettucefits about as well
  4. Cucumberfits about as well

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