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Sweet Potato and Spinach Mac and Cheese

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By naturallyella · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Sweet Potato and Spinach Mac and Cheese

Why it works: Sweet potato and pasta share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Sweet Potato and Spinach Mac and Cheese

4-6
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1406Calories
58 gProtein
45 gFat
191 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Wheatnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By naturallyella. 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.

  1. Sweet potato + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Pasta + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,079 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Wheat + pastatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Pasta + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sweet potato + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, wheat, pasta, butter, flour, garlic, milk):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, wheat, pasta, butter, flour, garlic, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.