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Shrimp Enchiladas with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Parsnips

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Why it works: Parsnip and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 95 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Makes 6 servings

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

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By epicurious. 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. Parsnip + sweet potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cumin + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Sweet potato + yamtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Cumin + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the yam

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cumin, parsnip, sweet potato, onion, oregano, garlic, cream):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Yamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cumin, parsnip, sweet potato, onion, oregano, garlic, cream. 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).