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Honey-roasted Sweet Potato with Red Onions

A sensational and colourful side dish, fantastic served with a roast dinner

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Honey-roasted Sweet Potato with Red Onions

Why it works: Cumin and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,866 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Honey-roasted Sweet Potato with Red Onions

Serves 8

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

464Calories
7 gProtein
15 gFat
81 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Olive1 large (4g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Coriandernot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Cumin + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,866 recipes

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

  2. Ginger + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Ginger + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Sweet potato + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Ginger + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, olive, ginger, cumin, orange, honey, coriander):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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