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Paprika Pork with Sweet Potato Wedges

Spice up midweek suppers with this quick paprika pork recipe

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Paprika Pork with Sweet Potato Wedges

Why it works: Sweet potato and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Paprika Pork with Sweet Potato Wedges

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

623Calories
48 gProtein
28 gFat
43 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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Saladnot 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. Sweet potato + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Olive + chivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Olive + sweet potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

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

  4. Olive + yogurttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Pork + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,716 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, olive, yogurt, chive):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, olive, yogurt, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.