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Polenta with Butternut Squash, Sausage and Caramelized Onions

A creamy and hearty dinner that comes together simultaneously. Comfort food in about half an hour!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Polenta with Butternut Squash, Sausage and Caramelized Onions

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Polenta with Butternut Squash, Sausage and Caramelized Onions

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

680Calories
60 gProtein
43 gFat
12 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Waternot 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,608 recipes

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

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

Swap the butternut squash

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, turkey, onion, clove, garlic, thyme, butter):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Lemonfits about as well
  3. Butternut squashthe original
  4. Plumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, turkey, onion, clove, garlic, thyme, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.