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Roasted Butternut Squash with Pine Nuts and Parmesan

Last week, my two childhood friends and I were in Chicago for my holiday cookbook signing. We arrived in the city around lunc...

By thepioneerwoman · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Roasted Butternut Squash with Pine Nuts and Parmesan

Why it works: Butternut squash and pine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 38 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roasted Butternut Squash with Pine Nuts and Parmesan

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

409Calories
14 gProtein
38 gFat
6 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Saladnot 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 thepioneerwoman. 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 + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + pinetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Butternut squash + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together512 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butter + pinetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together358 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  5. Pine + nutstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, butter, pepper, pine):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

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