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Roasted Yams & Sesame Seeds

Great side dish to accompany any main course!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Yam and sesame share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep8 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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

  1. Heat the oven to 425°F (220°C). Grease a large rimmed baking sheet with a little of the canola oil.

  2. Toss the yam wedges with the canola oil and the salt and black pepper, then spread them in a single layer on the baking sheet.

  3. Roast the yams for 12 minutes.

  4. Whisk the melted butter and honey together in a small bowl.

  5. Remove the sheet from the oven, drizzle the honey butter over the yams, and toss them to coat.

  6. Return the yams to the oven and roast for 8 to 10 minutes more, until tender and golden at the edges.

  7. Sprinkle the sesame seeds over the yams in the last 2 minutes of roasting so they toast without burning.

  8. Serve the yams hot, straight from the baking sheet.

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. Yam + sesametop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Canola oil + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  3. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Honey + sesametop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  5. Butter + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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