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Sweet Potato, Apple, and Cranberry Saute with Hazelnuts

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Why it works: Sweet potato and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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

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By thevintagemixer. 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. Sweet potato + hazelnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Apple + cidertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Sweet potato + maple syruptop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Apple + maple syruptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together272 recipes

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

  5. Apple + hazelnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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