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Steak and Sweet Potato Tostadas

These steak and sweet potato tostadas are the perfect alternative to a taco and you can eat them with your hands too!

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Steak and Sweet Potato Tostadas

Why it works: Sweet potato and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Steak and Sweet Potato Tostadas

Serves 8
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1139Calories
52 gProtein
61 gFat
104 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 17 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Tostadanot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Seednot 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. Sweet potato + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Avocado + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Corn + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,211 recipes

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

  4. Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sweet potato + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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 (olive, avocado, corn, canola oil, beans, pepper, sauce):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits about as well
  4. Sweet potatothe original

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