Name: Sweet Potato Sausage Frittata
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil; 454g pack British pork sausages; 1 sweet potato (about 225g), peeled and thinly sliced; 1 medium red onion, cut into thin wedges; 50g baby spinach leaves, roughly sliced; 8 large eggs; 1 tbsp snipped chives, plus extra to garnish; green salad, to serve

Why it works: Spinach and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Sausage Frittata

Serves 4

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil
454g pack British pork sausages
1 sweet potato (about 225g), peeled and thinly sliced
1 medium red onion, cut into thin wedges
50g baby spinach leaves, roughly sliced
8 large eggs
1 tbsp snipped chives, plus extra to garnish
green salad, to serve

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

711Calories

25 gProtein

46 gFat

51 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork Sausage	100g cooked	301
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Chive	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salad	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 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.

Spinach + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together163 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Sweet potato + spinachtop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together126 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Sweet potato + chivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,907 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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 (olive, pork, sweet potato, spinach, egg, chive):

Welsh onionfits better
Shallotfits better
Lettucefits better
Onionthe original

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

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