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Baked Sweet Potatoes with Raisins and Pecans

"Sweet potatoes are baked with raisins and chopped pecans in this side dish that's satisfying and not too sweet. A syrup mixture is drizzled over the top as a glaze."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Baked Sweet Potatoes with Raisins and Pecans

Why it works: Sweet potato and pecans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Baked Sweet Potatoes with Raisins and Pecans

6 cups
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

573Calories
8 gProtein
32 gFat
70 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Waternot 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 allrecipes. 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 + pecanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

  2. Sweet potato + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Pecans + maple syruptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together274 recipes

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

  4. Sweet potato + maple syruptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Pecans + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,416 recipes

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

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, pecans, butter, maple syrup):

  1. Pumpkinfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Raisinthe original

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