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Butternut Squash Risotto

Use leftover soup to flavour a simple risotto. This version uses butternut squash soup, but vary the recipe by using any other leftover soup you have.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,994 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Butternut Squash Risotto

Serves 1-2
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

479Calories
16 gProtein
21 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Soupnot 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 bbcfood. 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. Olive + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

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

  2. Butternut squash + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Butternut squash + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together692 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butternut squash + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the onion

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

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

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