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Chipotle-Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Pomegranate-Pistachio Guacamole

These sweet and spicy potatoes topped with loaded superfood guacamole are mind-glowingly healthy and delicious. Vegan, paleo and gluten-free!

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Chipotle-Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Pomegranate-Pistachio Guacamole

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 27,039 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

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Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

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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. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Avocado + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Potato + sweet potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Lemon + pomegranatetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Sweet potato + pomegranatetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, sweet potato, pepper, sauce, honey, lemon, pomegranate):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Avocadothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, sweet potato, pepper, sauce, honey, lemon, pomegranate. 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).