Name: Crispy Sweet Potato Roast
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons salted or unsalted butter, melted; 3 tablespoons olive oil; Coarse salt and black pepper or red pepper flakes to taste; 5 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced thin; 2 shallots, peeled and sliced thin

Crispy Sweet Potato Roast

I have a relationship with sweet potatoes. I think they’re one of these wonder vegetables — impossible to mess up cooking, pretty consistently delicious whether you buy them freshly-dug from the farmers market or from a grocery chain, aglow with vitamins A and C and chock full of fiber. [Which I mostly think about because I’m the mother of a .] I like them in , and . I like them with , , with a , and . But I also have all sorts of quibbles with them. They’re never crispy enough. They’re rarely savory enough — basically, if you get within 10 feet of my savory sweet potato dish with cinnamon, I go into hiding. For me, the louder the contrast between their sweet, soft nature, the happier I am eating them.

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients

Why it works: Sweet potato and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Crispy Sweet Potato Roast

Ingredients

3 tablespoons salted or unsalted butter, melted
3 tablespoons olive oil
Coarse salt and black pepper or red pepper flakes to taste
5 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced thin
2 shallots, peeled and sliced thin

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

440Calories

6 gProtein

26 gFat

50 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 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 smittenkitchen. 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.

Sweet potato + shallottop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Olive + sweet potatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together950 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Olive + shallottop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,659 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,263 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Pepper + shallottop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,898 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, olive, pepper, shallot):

Chivefits better
Capsicumfits better
Spinachfits better
Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, olive, pepper, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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