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Chicken, Bacon and Butternut Squash Pie

A filo parcel filled with chicken breast pieces, smoked bacon lardons, pine nuts and butternut squash. Save yourself time by buying in the filo pastry.

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Why it works: Pomegranate and butternut squash share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Turmeric + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,698 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Coriander + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,866 recipes

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

  4. Cinnamon + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  5. Cinnamon + pomegranatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turmeric, flour, olive, butter, pepper, coriander, cumin):

  1. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  2. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turmeric, flour, olive, butter, pepper, coriander, cumin. 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).