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Peppery Sausages with Sweet Potato Mash

Try bangers and mash with a difference - flavour your sausages with thyme and West Indian spice and serve with creamy potatoes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Peppery Sausages with Sweet Potato Mash

Why it works: Sweet potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Peppery Sausages with Sweet Potato Mash

Serves 3
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

884Calories
24 gProtein
54 gFat
82 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sausage100g cooked301
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Saucenot in our table0
Saladnot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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 + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sweet potato + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Nutmeg + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the nutmeg

The recipe marks nutmeg as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, sweet potato, olive, pepper, sauce, lime, sugar):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

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