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Butternut Squash Orzo with Cherries & Pecans

This pasta has all the goods—veggies, fruits and nuts! Oh, and maple syrup and fresh rosemary. Great for weeknights, hosting, as a main course, or as a side dish.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Butternut Squash Orzo with Cherries & Pecans

Why it works: Butternut squash and pasta share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 46 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Butternut Squash Orzo with Cherries & Pecans

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

519Calories
11 gProtein
18 gFat
84 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Arugula1 cup (20g)5
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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 + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Rosemary + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together845 recipes

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

  3. Butternut squash + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + pastatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the arugula

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, olive, pasta, pecans, maple syrup, rosemary, lemon):

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Arugulathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, olive, pasta, pecans, maple syrup, rosemary, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.