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Sweet Potatoes with Blue Cheese and Pecans

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and pecans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 136 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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 + pecanstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together136 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Cream cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Cream cheese + pecanstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together465 recipes

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

  5. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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