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Miso Sweet Potato and Broccoli Bowl

Here are the things I jotted down on my cooking wish-list (!) I was : baked cauliflower cheese, a “proper” English Sunday roast (with fried potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, creamy horseradish sauce), the “full English” breakfast (authentic = every item must be fried, apparently!), cider vinegar + Maldon sea salt crisps with champagne, please, chunky olive oil and mushroom risotto, clotted cream and marmalade scones, Welsh cakes, chocolate-dipped digestives and fall apple-plum crisps thickly drizzled with fresh cream.

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and miso share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By smittenkitchen. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sweet potato + misotop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6 recipes

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

  2. Sesame + misotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Broccoli + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Broccoli + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, sweet potato, broccoli, olive, pepper, sesame, garlic):

  1. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Cuminabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Gingerthe original
  4. Turmericabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sweet potato, broccoli, olive, pepper, sesame, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).