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Sweet Potato Fries

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Why it works: Sweet potato and garlic work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 631 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (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. Preheat the oven to 450°F (230°C) and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

  2. Rinse the cut sweet potato sticks in cold water, then pat them completely dry with a clean towel.

  3. Melt the salted butter in a small saucepan over low heat, add the pressed garlic, and cook for 1 minute without browning.

  4. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the seasoned salt (or plain salt), chili powder, and black pepper.

  5. Toss the sweet potatoes with the seasoned butter and spread them in a single layer on the baking sheets.

  6. Roast for 8 minutes, then turn the sticks and roast for 7 more minutes until crisp at the edges and tender inside.

  7. While the fries roast, stir the mayonnaise with the ketchup, or with the sriracha if you want it spicy, to make a dipping sauce.

  8. Serve the hot fries right away with the dipping sauce.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Sweet potato + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together631 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sweet potato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Butter + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together85,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Sweet potato + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, butter, pepper, ketchup):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Sagebetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, butter, pepper, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).