Name: Chorizo, Poblano and Yam Fajitas with Lime-Marinated Red Onions
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups paper-thin slices red onions; 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice; 2 cups 1/2-inch-thick sticks peeled yam (red-skinned sweet potato); 12 to 14 ounces fresh chorizo sausages (about 3), casings removed; 2 fresh poblano chiles,* halved, seeded, cut into thin strips; 8 7- to 8-inch-diameter flour tortillas; 1 cup crumbled feta cheese

Why it works: Lime and yam share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

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

2 cups paper-thin slices red onions
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 cups 1/2-inch-thick sticks peeled yam (red-skinned sweet potato)
12 to 14 ounces fresh chorizo sausages (about 3), casings removed
2 fresh poblano chiles,* halved, seeded, cut into thin strips
8 7- to 8-inch-diameter flour tortillas
1 cup crumbled feta cheese

Directions

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By epicurious. 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.

Lime + yamtop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together18 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Yam + sweet potatotop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together99 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Lime + sweet potatotop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together177 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Yam + flourtop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together58 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Onion + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together1,030 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, lime, yam, flour, feta cheese):

Sweet potatothe original
Welsh onionabout as good a flavor fit
Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
Spinachabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, lime, yam, flour, feta cheese. 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).

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