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Maple Tarragon Sweet Potatoes

Roasted sweet potato slices glazed with maple syrup, orange juice, and tarragon.

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Why it works: Sweet potato and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 539 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Maple Tarragon Sweet Potatoes

Oven350°F
Timeabout 55 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

  2. Lightly oil a shallow casserole dish.

  3. Arrange sweet potato slices on overlapping rows in the dish.

Make the glaze and assemble

  1. In a small bowl, combine maple syrup, oil, orange juice, cinnamon, and salt.

  2. Pour this evenly over the potatoes.

  3. Sprinkle the top with tarragon.

Bake and serve

  1. Cover and bake until easily pierced with a fork, but the potatoes ought to be still firm. This should take about 30 minutes.

  2. Uncover and bake until glazed and golden around the edges, about another 25 minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

402Calories
6 gProtein
14 gFat
68 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Salt1 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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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.

  1. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Orange + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cinnamon + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: cinnamyl acetate (sweet aromatic, cinnamon).

  4. Sweet potato + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together191 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Orange + tarragontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Form the bulk of the dish and turn tender and soft as they bake.
Maple syrup
Adds sweetness and helps the top caramelize to a glaze as it bakes.
Oil
Carries the flavors and keeps the potatoes moist while they bake.
Orange juice
Adds acidity and moisture that brighten the sweet syrupy glaze.

The step that matters

Covered baking before uncovering. Baking covered first keeps the potatoes moist and lets them cook through. Uncovering too early can dry the slices and burn the syrup before the centers are tender.

Swap the tarragon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, maple syrup, orange, cinnamon):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Tarragonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, maple syrup, orange, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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