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Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Ginger, Cardamom, and Honey Recipe

Exotic spices like ginger and cardamon warm up mashed sweet potatoes. A tasty side dish for cooler weather.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and cardamom share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 24 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sweet potato + cardamomtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Ginger + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,114 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sweet potato + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Sweet potato + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Honey + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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