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Hawaiian Style Sweet Potato Pie, Featuring American Orange Yams and Okinawa Purple Sweet Potato with Macadamia Nut

Okinawa Purple Sweet Potatoes can be found at Asian grocery stories and some specialty stores. They look deceptively brown from the outside, but when cut into, the flesh is a brilliant indigo purple. Cooked, they taste similar to their orange siblings but with a striking color difference. Combined with traditional American orange sweet potatoes (or yams as they are often called in the grocery stores) the color contrast makes for a wonderfully stunning dessert with an old time flavor.

By eatthelove · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Hawaiian Style Sweet Potato Pie, Featuring American Orange Yams and Okinawa Purple Sweet Potato with Macadamia Nut

Why it works: Sweet potato and yam share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 99 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Hawaiian Style Sweet Potato Pie, Featuring American Orange Yams and Okinawa Purple Sweet Potato with Macadamia Nut

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1121Calories
42 gProtein
19 gFat
186 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 17 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Yamnot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
Macadamia Nutnot in our table0
Macadamianot 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 eatthelove. 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 + yamtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Flour + yamtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together63 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Wheat + sweet potatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Sweet potato + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together191 recipes

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

  5. Flour + sweet potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together627 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, sugar, butter, rum, sweet potato, yam):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Orangethe original

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