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Twice-Baked Sweet Potato Recipe with Chipotle Pecan Streusel

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Twice-Baked Sweet Potato Recipe with Chipotle Pecan Streusel

Why it works: Sweet potato and yam share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 99 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Twice-Baked Sweet Potato Recipe with Chipotle Pecan Streusel

Serves 8

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

972Calories
18 gProtein
29 gFat
162 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Yamnot 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 cookincanuck. 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 + yamtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Yam + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sweet potato + pecanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

  5. Canola oil + pecanstop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, yam, canola oil, butter, maple syrup, cinnamon, sugar):

  1. Cashew nutfits about as well
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Chickpeafits about as well
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, yam, canola oil, butter, maple syrup, cinnamon, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.