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Thai-Flavored Green Curry with Sweet Potato, Green Beans, and Chicken

Recipe for Thai-Flavored Green Curry with Sweet Potato, Green Beans, and Chicken.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Thai-Flavored Green Curry with Sweet Potato, Green Beans, and Chicken

Why it works: Coconut and sweet potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Thai-Flavored Green Curry with Sweet Potato, Green Beans, and Chicken

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

804Calories
40 gProtein
45 gFat
63 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bonappetit. 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. Coconut + sweet potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Coconut + basiltop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Sweet potato + basiltop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

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

Swap the basil

The recipe marks basil as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, coconut, milk, sweet potato, green beans, chicken):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, coconut, milk, sweet potato, green beans, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.