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Sweet Potato Pie with Lime Zest

Great sweet potato pie that everyone will love.

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Why it works: Potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 424 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep8 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Drain the canned sweet potatoes well and mash them in a bowl until mostly smooth.

  2. Stir the light brown sugar, sugar, honey, cinnamon and grated zest from the whole lime into the mashed sweet potatoes until evenly combined.

  3. Set both frozen pie shells on a baking sheet. Divide the filling evenly between them and spread it smooth.

  4. Bake for 15 minutes until the crust edges are golden and the filling is set around the edges.

  5. Remove from the oven, scatter the mini marshmallows over the tops of both pies, then bake 5 minutes more until the marshmallows are puffed and lightly golden.

  6. Cool for at least 20 minutes before slicing.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Potato + limetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together424 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Yam + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Yam + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Honey + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,446 recipes

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

  5. Cinnamon + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together470 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 (potato, syrup, sugar, honey, cinnamon, lime):

  1. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Yamthe original
  4. Carrotabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, syrup, sugar, honey, cinnamon, lime. 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).