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Roasted Butternut Squash Hummus

I grew up loving hummus made by my Lebanese grandmother. This recipe is a really fun and yummy twist on the classic, with the gorgeous roasted butternut squash giving so much flavor and wonderful texture! I served them with lemon oregano pita chips, and it was perfection.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butternut squash and tahini work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12
Prep20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

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.

  1. Butternut squash + tahinitop 25% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,711 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Butternut squash + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Tahini + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tahini

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, clove, olive, garlic, chickpea, lemon, allspice):

  1. Lentilsbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Cashew nutbetter flavor fit
  4. Tahinithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, clove, olive, garlic, chickpea, lemon, allspice. 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).