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Sweet Potato Maple Bacon Fritters

These sweet potato maple bacon fritters are such incredible little delights of flavor. Savory, sweet and slightly smoky. Serve them as a cocktail bite, appetizer, or amazing side dish!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Sweet Potato Maple Bacon Fritters

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg 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 ↓

Sweet Potato Maple Bacon Fritters

Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

507Calories
16 gProtein
20 gFat
70 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sweet potato + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  4. Sweet potato + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Shallot + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, egg, maple syrup, sugar, cream cheese, cinnamon, nutmeg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, egg, maple syrup, sugar, cream cheese, cinnamon, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.