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Levi Roots' Sweet Potatoes with Spicy Sausage Recipe

Levi Root's Caribbean spin on baked potatoes.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 304 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Levi Roots' Sweet Potatoes with Spicy Sausage Recipe

2 people
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr 15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

813Calories
31 gProtein
54 gFat
53 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
Pork Sausage100g cooked301
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot 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 lovefood. 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 + coriandertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together304 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Coriander + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Pork + cheddar cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Butter + cheddar cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,436 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the coriander

The recipe marks coriander as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, butter, pork, onion, cheddar cheese, pepper, egg):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Corianderthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, butter, pork, onion, cheddar cheese, pepper, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.