Name: Loaded Tex-Mex Nachos with Sweet Potato Chips
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 2 whole FOR THE NACHOS:; 2 Tablespoons Large Sweet Potatoes, Rinsed And Sliced Thin; 1 teaspoon Olive Oil; 3 cups Fine Sea Salt; 1 cup Blue Corn Tortilla Chips; 1 cup Mozzarella Cheese, Grated (or Other Melty Cheese Of Your Choice); ¾ cups Fully Cooked Boneless And Skinless Chicken Breast, Shredded; ½ cups Canned Black Beans, Drained And Rinsed; 1 whole Frozen Corn Kernels, Warmed Through; 1 whole Large Tomato, Seeds Removed And Diced; 4 strips Large Jalapeno, Sliced; 2 ounces, weight Bacon, Cooked Until Crisp And Chopped; 2 Tablespoons Cotija Cheese, Crumbled; 1 whole Fresh Cilantro, Chopped; 2 whole Large Avocado, Pitted And Diced; ¾ cups FOR THE AVOCADO CREAM SAUCE:; ¼ cups Large Avocados, Pitted And Diced; 2 Tablespoons Plain Greek Yogurt; 1 Tablespoon Mayonnaise; 1 Tablespoon White Wine Vinegar

Why it works: Sweet potato and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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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.

Sweet potato + beanstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together165 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,713 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Corn + beanstop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,211 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Olive + beanstop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,470 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, olive, corn, mozzarella cheese, chicken, beans, tomato):

Cuminfits better
Basilfits better
Garlicfits better
Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, olive, corn, mozzarella cheese, chicken, beans, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Corn Tortilla	1 medium flour (45g)	140
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Mozzarella Cheese	1 oz (28g)	85
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Nachos	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

Loaded Tex-Mex Nachos with Sweet Potato Chips