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Sweet Potato Colcannon Recipe

It was the luck of the Irish, amid all the twitters, I learned about colcannon from www.Foodwishes.com. A traditional Irish dish, colcannon is made with white...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 38 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Colcannon Recipe

Serves 6 to 8

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1043Calories
21 gProtein
33 gFat
161 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 16 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Whiskeynot 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 chow. 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 + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Kale + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together526 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  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 kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, butter, cream, sherry, vinegar, onion, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, butter, cream, sherry, vinegar, onion, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.