Name: Sweet Potato Hash Recipe with Creamy California Avocado Sauce
Prep time: 17 min
Cook time: 18 min
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 avocado, skin and seed removed; 1/3 cup fat-free plain Greek yogurt; 1 clove garlic, minced; 1 lime, juiced; 2 tbsp minced cilantro; 2 tbsp water; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp ground pepper; 1 1/4 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch dice; 3/4 lb. russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch dice; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 1/2 tsp salt; 3/4 cup black beans (cooked); 4 strips cooked bacon; 1/4 cup minced cilantro

Why it works: Avocado and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,117 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

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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.

Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,117 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lime + sweet potatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together177 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,491 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Avocado + sweet potatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together40 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Garlic + potatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, yogurt, clove, garlic, lime, pepper, sweet potato):

Kalefits better
Chivefits better
Spinachfits better
Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, yogurt, clove, garlic, lime, pepper, sweet potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0

Sweet Potato Hash Recipe with Creamy California Avocado Sauce