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Sweet Potatoes with Mushrooms & Rosemary

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Sweet Potatoes with Mushrooms & Rosemary

Why it works: Sweet potato and chestnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Sweet Potatoes with Mushrooms & Rosemary

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

409Calories
17 gProtein
21 gFat
41 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
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Chestnutnot 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 + chestnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Chestnut + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

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

  5. Sweet potato + rosemarytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 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 sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, chestnut, mushroom, rosemary):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, chestnut, mushroom, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.