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Sweet Potato & Feta Salad

Sweet potato, traditional in Aussie roast dinners, also works well as a potato salad with the salty feta

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Sweet Potato & Feta Salad

Why it works: Spinach and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 181 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Sweet Potato & Feta Salad

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

767Calories
19 gProtein
43 gFat
85 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3

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. Spinach + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together181 recipes

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

  2. Sweet potato + spinachtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together126 recipes

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

  3. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Sweet potato + pinetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, sweet potato, olive, spinach, pine, onion, feta cheese):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, sweet potato, olive, spinach, pine, onion, feta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.