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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Walnuts, Honey and Goat Cheese

Savory sweet potatoes with a hint of honey.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Walnuts, Honey and Goat Cheese

Why it works: Olive and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,087 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Walnuts, Honey and Goat Cheese

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

478Calories
5 gProtein
28 gFat
56 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)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.

  1. Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  3. Sweet potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Sweet potato + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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 (olive, pepper, walnut, butter, honey):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, walnut, butter, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.