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Sweet Potato, Chickpea & Chorizo Hash

Bypass the washing-up with this spicy one-pot dish

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Sweet Potato, Chickpea & Chorizo Hash

Why it works: Sweet potato and chickpea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 48 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sweet Potato, Chickpea & Chorizo Hash

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

718Calories
31 gProtein
35 gFat
72 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
Sausage100g cooked301
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Sunflower Oilnot 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 + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together48 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

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

  3. Sweet potato + sunflowertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Onion + chickpeatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Sweet potato + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together960 recipes

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

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 (sweet potato, sunflower, chickpea, egg):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

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