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Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Onions

Cooler fall evenings are perfect for roasting all kinds of veggies in the oven, and sweet potatoes and onions are a tasty, crowd-pleasing combo.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Onions

Why it works: Olive and rosemary are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,590 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Onions

Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

328Calories
6 gProtein
14 gFat
48 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4

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. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together708 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Sweet potato + rosemarytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

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

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, potato, olive, rosemary):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, potato, olive, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.