Why it works: Meat and sweet potato work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 60 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Baked Chine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Rub the chine well with salt.
Place the chine in a dripping pan with water.
Surround the meat with sweet potatoes.
Cook and serve
Cover the pan and cook until thoroughly done.
Serve the chine on a platter with the sweet potatoes around it.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Meat + sweet potatotop 22% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together60 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
What each ingredient does
- Chine of meat
- Forms the main dish, and its fat and connective tissue keep it moist as it cooks.
- Coarse sea salt
- Seasons the meat on the surface and helps draw out moisture for a more flavorful crust.
- Sweet potatoes
- Cook alongside the meat in the pan, absorbing drippings and adding sweetness.
The step that matters
Cover the pan and cook until thoroughly done. Covering traps steam so the meat cooks through evenly and stays moist. Cooking until thoroughly done ensures the centre reaches a safe temperature, which is hard to judge by time alone.
“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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