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Roasted Acorn Squash with Wild Rice Stuffing Recipe

Acorn squash is a satisfying side when roasted and topped with a pat of butter and a drizzle of maple syrup, but filled with a hearty stuffing of wild rice, pecans...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Acorn and wild rice share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Acorn + wild ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Butter + pecanstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,408 recipes

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

  4. Onion + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,506 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Celery + wild ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (acorn, butter, sugar, onion, celery, wild rice, pepper):

  1. Black-eyed peabetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chestnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against acorn, butter, sugar, onion, celery, wild rice, pepper. 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).