Name: Grilled Sweet Potato Wedges with Spicy Adobo Greek Yogurt Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 7 ounces, fluid FOR THE SAUCE:; 5 teaspoons 2% Plain Greek Yogurt; ⅛ teaspoons Adobo Sauce (from A Can Of Chipotle Chiles); 6 whole Garlic Powder; ¼ cups FOR THE POTATOES:; ½ teaspoons Sweet Potatoes, Quartered Into Wedges; ½ teaspoons Olive Oil; 2 whole Salt

Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Grilled Sweet Potato Wedges with Spicy Adobo Greek Yogurt Sauce

Serves 8

Prep5 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

7 ounces, fluid FOR THE SAUCE:
5 teaspoons 2% Plain Greek Yogurt
⅛ teaspoons Adobo Sauce (from A Can Of Chipotle Chiles)
6 whole Garlic Powder
¼ cups FOR THE POTATOES:
½ teaspoons Sweet Potatoes, Quartered Into Wedges
½ teaspoons Olive Oil
2 whole Salt

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

392Calories

22 gProtein

15 gFat

45 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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.

Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + potatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,458 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Sweet potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together950 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Garlic + sweet potatotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together631 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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 (sauce, yogurt, garlic, potato, olive):

Tomatofits better
Chivefits better
Broccolifits better
Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, yogurt, garlic, potato, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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