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Red Quinoa and Roasted Butternut Squash Salad

A light and healthy grain salad that makes the perfect lunch or simple side. Nutritious and delicious!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Red Quinoa and Roasted Butternut Squash Salad

Why it works: Butternut squash and quinoa share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Red Quinoa and Roasted Butternut Squash Salad

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

641Calories
18 gProtein
31 gFat
79 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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 tastykitchen. 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 + quinoatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butternut squash + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Quinoa + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Butternut squash + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + quinoatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, olive, cinnamon, quinoa, shallot, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Pumpkinfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, olive, cinnamon, quinoa, shallot, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.