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Roasted Yam Purée with Coconut Milk Recipe

This dish is creamy orange bliss. Often confused with sweet potatoes, yams contain more natural sugar and have a higher moisture content. When buying yams, select...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Yam and coconut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roasted Yam Purée with Coconut Milk Recipe

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

454Calories
3 gProtein
40 gFat
23 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Yamnot 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. Yam + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + coconuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,672 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Yam + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Yam + maple syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Maple syrup + coconuttop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yam, maple syrup, olive):

  1. Pumpkinfits better
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Limefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against yam, maple syrup, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.