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Roasted Sweet Potato Coconut Stew

If you like sweet potatoes you will love this soup. Minimal ingredients and super healthy, however it tastes rich, creamy and velvety. You will feel like you are indulging without an ounce of guilt. It’s vegan too!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Roasted Sweet Potato Coconut Stew

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Roasted Sweet Potato Coconut Stew

Serves 8
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

591Calories
8 gProtein
41 gFat
53 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sweet Potato1 medium (114g) baked103
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Celery Stalks1 stalk (40g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Sweet potato + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, olive, carrot, celery, onion, clove, garlic):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits about as well
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, olive, carrot, celery, onion, clove, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.