Name: Roasted Cauliflower, Turkey Sausage & Kale Pie with Sweet Potato Crust
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 2 whole FOR THE POTATO CRUST:; 1-½ teaspoon Large Sweet Potatoes, Peeled; 1 whole Kosher Or Sea Salt; 3 Tablespoons Large Egg; 1 head Freshly Ground Pepper, to taste; 1 pound Flour (all Purpose, Whole Grain Or Gluten Free); 4 ounces, weight FOR THE CAULIFLOWER:; 1 cup Small Cauliflower; 4 whole Freshly Ground Pepper, to taste; ½ teaspoons FOR THE FILLING:; 1 teaspoon Low Fat Turkey Sausage, Casings Removed; 2 teaspoons Kale, Chopped Into 1/2 Inch Pieces; 2 teaspoons Fat-free Plain Greek Yogurt; 2 ounces, weight Large Eggs

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 ↓

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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.

Sweet potato + kaletop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together38 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cauliflower + kaletop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together7 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Flour + kaletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together147 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Potato + kaletop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together171 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,305 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, egg, pepper, flour, cauliflower, turkey, kale):

Shallotfits better
Spinachfits better
Turnipfits better
Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, egg, pepper, flour, cauliflower, turkey, kale. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pork	100g cooked	242
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Roasted Cauliflower, Turkey Sausage & Kale Pie with Sweet Potato Crust