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Swiss Chard and Sweet Potato Gratin

Surely I’m not alone in this: When I’m eating starchy foods, I think I should be eating more greens. When I’m eating my greens, I wish I had heavier foods to balance them. And pretty much all of the time, I wonder why it has been so long since I made .

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Chard and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By smittenkitchen. 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. Chard + sweet potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Chard + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chard + flourtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, chard, cream, garlic, flour, sweet potato):

  1. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cuminabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, chard, cream, garlic, flour, sweet potato. 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).