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Kabocha Squash Risotto with Sage and Pine Nuts

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 61 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 6 main-course servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By epicurious. 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. Sage + pinetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together61 recipes

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

  2. Butternut squash + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,838 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Olive + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Sherry + winetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together219 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the butternut squash

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, sage, sherry, wine, vinegar, onion, rice):

  1. Grapebetter flavor fit
  2. Applebetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Butternut squashthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, sage, sherry, wine, vinegar, onion, rice. 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).