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Butternut Squash and Cheddar Bread Pudding

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Butternut Squash and Cheddar Bread Pudding

Why it works: Butternut squash and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Butternut Squash and Cheddar Bread Pudding

Makes 6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

440Calories
16 gProtein
34 gFat
14 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butternut squash + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butternut squash + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shallot + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Mustard + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Mustard + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, olive, egg, white wine, shallot, kale, cheddar cheese):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, olive, egg, white wine, shallot, kale, cheddar cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.