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Not Sweet Sweet Potatoes Recipe

This is a recipe I began making years ago when I wanted to do something different with sweet potatoes. I had sweet potatoes and I had onions, so I roasted them...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 950 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Not Sweet Sweet Potatoes Recipe

enough for 4 to 6

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

392Calories
7 gProtein
14 gFat
64 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By chow. 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 + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Orange + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Orange + sweet potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together191 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Orange + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

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

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

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