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Savory Lower-Carb Butternut Squash Muffins

"I wanted a quick bread that I could actually eat while on a low-carb diet. They are so moist! The rosemary and brown sugar makes them savory and sweet. My husband and I eat them for dinner and breakfast."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Savory Lower-Carb Butternut Squash Muffins

Why it works: Butternut squash and rosemary share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Savory Lower-Carb Butternut Squash Muffins

24 serving
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

859Calories
25 gProtein
23 gFat
136 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot 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. Butternut squash + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Flour + butternut squashtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Olive + butternut squashtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + oatstop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together613 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the rosemary

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, flour, sugar, olive, butternut squash, oats):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Rosemarythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, flour, sugar, olive, butternut squash, oats. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.