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Mashed Sweet Potato and Smoked Gouda Cakes

Crispy pan-fried mashed sweet potato cakes flavored with smoked Gouda cheese.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Mashed Sweet Potato and Smoked Gouda Cakes

Why it works: Butter and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,955 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

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Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

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By tastykitchen. 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. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Sweet potato + pomegranatetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Cream + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,649 recipes

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

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pomegranate

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, butter, cream, flour, cheese):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Pomegranatethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, butter, cream, flour, cheese. 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).