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Chipotle Blue Cheese Sweet Potato Wedges

Sweet potatoes for president!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: 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 425°F (220°C) and spread the sweet potato wedges in a single layer on a baking sheet.

  2. In a small bowl, stir together the melted butter, 2 tablespoons of the adobo sauce and the agave until smooth.

  3. Brush about half of the butter mixture over the wedges, making sure they are evenly coated.

  4. Roast for 10 minutes.

  5. Flip the wedges, brush them with the remaining butter mixture, and roast for another 10 minutes until tender and browned at the edges.

  6. Move the hot wedges to a bowl, toss with extra adobo sauce if desired, sprinkle with the blue cheese crumbles, and serve warm.

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. Sweet potato + blue cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Sweet potato + agavetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butter + saucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15,317 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

Butter and sauce share little aroma chemistry, yet 15,317 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