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Butternut Squash and Spinach Lasagna

This is a vegan version of Butternut Squash and Spinach Lasagna with ricotta and a creamy Parmesan white sauce.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Butternut squash and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 211 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 9
Prep45 min
Cook45 min

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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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. Butternut squash + flourtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together211 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Flour + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butternut squash + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, pepper, sauce, flour, milk, nutmeg, parsley):

  1. Chestnutbetter flavor fit
  2. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  3. Lentilsbetter flavor fit
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, pepper, sauce, flour, milk, nutmeg, parsley. 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).