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Baked Honey-Glazed Yams with Cinnamon Dipping Glaze

Sweet and delicious thins to serve at any family picnic or gathering. These are great to eat as an appetizer or snack!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Baked Honey-Glazed Yams with Cinnamon Dipping Glaze

Why it works: Nutmeg and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Baked Honey-Glazed Yams with Cinnamon Dipping Glaze

Serves 10
Prep8 min
Cook14 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

208Calories
3 gProtein
2 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Yamnot in our table0
Syrupnot in our table0

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. Nutmeg + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Yam + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Yam + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cinnamon + corntop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

Swap the yam

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (honey, nutmeg, cinnamon, sugar, corn, syrup):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Arrowrootfits about as well
  4. Yamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, nutmeg, cinnamon, sugar, corn, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.