Name: Crispy Baked Sweet Potato Fries
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: (4 servings)
Ingredients: Cooking spray; 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into fries; 1 tablespoon cornstarch or arrowroot powder; 2 tablespoon olive oil; Salt and pepper, to taste

Why it works: Sweet potato and arrowroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Crispy Baked Sweet Potato Fries

(4 servings)

Prep10 min

Cook20 min

Ingredients

Cooking spray
2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into fries
1 tablespoon cornstarch or arrowroot powder
2 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

741Calories

18 gProtein

15 gFat

134 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Arrowroot	not in our table	0

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

By backtoherroots. 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.

Sweet potato + arrowroottop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Sweet potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together950 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,263 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Sweet potato + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,015 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Arrowroot + olivetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together78 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the arrowroot

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

Capsicumfits better
Spinachfits better
Tomatofits better
Arrowrootthe original

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

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