Name: Squash, Kale & Pepper Hash
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: ½ Tablespoons Olive Oil; 1-½ cup Butternut Or Kabocha Squash, Cut Into 1/2 Inch Cubes; ½ cups Red Pepper, Diced (1/2 Cup Is About 1/2 A Pepper); ½ cups Large Onion, Diced (1/2 Cup Is About 1/4 An Onion); ¼ teaspoons Smoked Paprika; ¼ teaspoons Cumin; 1 cup Kale, Roughly Chopped; 1 Egg

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

The recipe

Serves 1

Prep5 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

½ Tablespoons Olive Oil
1-½ cup Butternut Or Kabocha Squash, Cut Into 1/2 Inch Cubes
½ cups Red Pepper, Diced (1/2 Cup Is About 1/2 A Pepper)
½ cups Large Onion, Diced (1/2 Cup Is About 1/4 An Onion)
¼ teaspoons Smoked Paprika
¼ teaspoons Cumin
1 cup Kale, Roughly Chopped
1 Egg

Directions

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

Butternut + kaletop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together4 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Pepper + cumintop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together4,382 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Olive + cumintop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together4,309 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Onion + cumintop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together5,498 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Olive + oniontop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together26,431 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the butternut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, onion, cumin, kale, egg):

Chickpeabetter flavor fit
Beansbetter flavor fit
Lentilsbetter flavor fit
Butternutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, onion, cumin, kale, egg. 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).

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