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Shell Beans with Butternut Squash, Bacon and Sage

Woodsy fresh sage pairs nicely with a variety of autumnal ingredients like creamy-textured cubes of sweet butternut squash and earthy-tasting shelling beans. Toasted nuts and salty bacon lend welcome contrasting flavors and textures to round out the dish.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Shell Beans with Butternut Squash, Bacon and Sage

Why it works: Butternut squash and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 157 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Shell Beans with Butternut Squash, Bacon and Sage

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

236Calories
4 gProtein
19 gFat
14 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butternut squash + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beans + butternut squashtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Beans + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

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

  5. Beans + cranberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 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 cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, butternut squash, sage, olive, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, butternut squash, sage, olive, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.