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Kale Salad with Spiced Sweet Potatoes, Crispy Kale and Sweet Sesame Dressing

The perfect winter salad!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Kale Salad with Spiced Sweet Potatoes, Crispy Kale and Sweet Sesame Dressing

Why it works: Sweet potato and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 38 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Kale Salad with Spiced Sweet Potatoes, Crispy Kale and Sweet Sesame Dressing

Serves 6
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

556Calories
22 gProtein
27 gFat
60 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 15 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Pienot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Pepitanot 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. Sweet potato + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sweet potato + pumpkintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together172 recipes

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

  3. Olive + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Olive + kaletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Sweet potato + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, olive, kale, pepper, honey, rice, vinegar):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, olive, kale, pepper, honey, rice, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.