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Arugula Salad with Roasted Squash, Currants, and Pine Nuts

By bunkycooks · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Arugula Salad with Roasted Squash, Currants, and Pine Nuts

Why it works: Mustard and butternut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Arugula Salad with Roasted Squash, Currants, and Pine Nuts

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

473Calories
7 gProtein
36 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Arugula1 cup (20g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Butternutnot in our table0
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 bunkycooks. 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. Mustard + butternuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Olive + butternuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the butternut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, red wine, mustard, sugar, sauce, olive, pepper):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Butternutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, red wine, mustard, sugar, sauce, olive, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.