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Honey Cilantro Lime Grilled Sweet Potatoes

After a quick boil, all you have to do is slice them and throw them on the grill.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Honey Cilantro Lime Grilled Sweet Potatoes

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 ↓

Honey Cilantro Lime Grilled Sweet Potatoes

Serves 6
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

305Calories
5 gProtein
14 gFat
44 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
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. Sweet potato + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Sweet potato + canola oiltop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together64 recipes

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

  5. Lime + canola oiltop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together240 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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 (lime, pepper, canola oil):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatothe original
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Broccolifits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, pepper, canola oil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.