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Roasted Acorn Squash with Quinoa and Red Rice Stuffing

Heirloom quinoa and red rice add nutty, whole-grain goodness to autumn’s golden acorn squash. Serve alongside roast turkey or pork, or as a vegetarian main dish

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Quinoa and red rice share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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

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By williamssonoma. 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. Quinoa + red ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Olive + quinoatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together457 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  5. Olive + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together26,431 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 celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (acorn, olive, pepper, quinoa, red rice, butter, onion):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against acorn, olive, pepper, quinoa, red rice, butter, onion. 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).