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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Blue Cheese & Spicy Candied Pecans

This dish is perfect for BBQ season. Because it can be served hot or at room temperature, it travels well.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Blue Cheese & Spicy Candied Pecans

Why it works: Pecans and sweet potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Blue Cheese & Spicy Candied Pecans

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

366Calories
5 gProtein
16 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 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. Pecans + sweet potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

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

  3. Pecans + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together716 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, pepper, sweet potato, olive, vinegar):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Pecansthe original

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