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Sweet Potato Oat Loaf

This sweet potato loaf is a healthy way to change things up with all the pumpkin recipes around this time of year. It is great served warm with some peanut or almond butter as breakfast, a snack or dessert. And it is gluten free!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Sweet Potato Oat Loaf

Why it works: Cinnamon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Oat Loaf

Serves 9
Prep50 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1182Calories
33 gProtein
39 gFat
173 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
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Almond Milk1 cup (240ml) unsweetened30
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Cinnamon + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sweet potato + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 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 coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, flour, cinnamon, almond, milk, egg, vanilla):

  1. Raisinfits about as well
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Coconutthe original
  4. Blueberryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, flour, cinnamon, almond, milk, egg, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.