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Baked Sweet Potatoes

A simple sweet potato recipe with chilli and Chorizo

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and sweetcorn work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 175 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Olive + sweetcorntop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Sweet potato + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together126 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Olive + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Sweet potato + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together868 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, olive, pepper, spinach, sweetcorn, cream):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, olive, pepper, spinach, sweetcorn, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).