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Sticky Sausage & Sweet Potato Salad

A summery take on sausage and mash, this flavoursome meal makes a sweet and sticky treat

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 126 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sweet potato + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together126 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Mustard + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Honey + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,583 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Olive + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Mustard + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together503 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

Mustard and vinegar share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sweet potato, olive, mustard, honey, white wine, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sweet potato, olive, mustard, honey, white wine, vinegar. 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).