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Roast Quail with Lentils and Butternut Squash

A classy dinner for two that's packed with healthy ingredients. Quail is strongly flavoured, like duck, but low in fat, like chicken and is quick to cook. Here it’s served with a delicious sauce with bacon, lentils and butternut squash.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Butternut squash and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roast Quail with Lentils and Butternut Squash

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

510Calories
45 gProtein
21 gFat
35 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Quailnot in our table0
Saladnot 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 bbcfood. 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 + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butternut squash + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together476 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Butternut squash + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (garlic, olive, pepper, quail, shallot, chicken, red wine):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, olive, pepper, quail, shallot, chicken, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.