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Chuck Roast with Sweet Potatoes and Baby Kale

Slow cooked chuck roast that will surely melt in your mouth!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Chuck Roast with Sweet Potatoes and Baby Kale

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 ↓

Chuck Roast with Sweet Potatoes and Baby Kale

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

715Calories
32 gProtein
40 gFat
59 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)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 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 + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + sweet potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Cinnamon + kaletop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, olive, pepper, beef, sweet potato, cinnamon, honey):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Kalethe original

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