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Sweet Potato Grocer’s Pie

Top leftover lentil stew (or any veggie stew for that matter) with sweet potato for an easy no-meat cottage pie-style dish.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 950 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Grocer’s Pie

Serves 2-3
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

395Calories
13 gProtein
14 gFat
57 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Stewnot 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 bbcfood. 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 + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

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

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