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Nikki's Sweet Potato Recipe

Decadent, delicious baked sweet potato recipe made from seven ingredients - sweet potatoes, ginger, coconut milk, shredded coconut, maple syrup, macadamia nuts and a bit of butter or olive oil. Shared with my by my friend Nikki.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Nikki's Sweet Potato Recipe

Why it works: Coconut and macadamia nut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 84 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Nikki's Sweet Potato Recipe

Serves about 6.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

745Calories
8 gProtein
55 gFat
61 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Macadamianot 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 101cookbooks. 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. Coconut + macadamia nuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Sweet potato + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

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

  4. Sweet potato + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together306 recipes

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

  5. Coconut + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the macadamia nut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, sweet potato, coconut, milk, ginger, maple syrup, olive):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Macadamia nutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, sweet potato, coconut, milk, ginger, maple syrup, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.