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Maple Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

In this recipe, baked sweet potatoes are mashed with butter, cream, and maple syrup for an easy Thanksgiving or Christmas side dish.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Maple Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Maple Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

6 servings
Cook1 hr 35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

372Calories
5 gProtein
17 gFat
52 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Sweet potato + maple syruptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sweet potato + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Butter + maple syruptop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,084 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cream + maple syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together607 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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 (butter, cream, maple syrup, pepper):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Sweet potatothe original
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cream, maple syrup, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.