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Sweet Potato Wedges

Sweet potato wedges make a great alternative to potato and count as one of your 5-a-day.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 192 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

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By bbcfood. 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 + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Thyme + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Olive + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,641 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Thyme + cherviltop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Sweet potato + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together868 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chervil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, olive, thyme, pepper):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Sagebetter flavor fit
  4. Chervilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, olive, thyme, pepper. 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).