Skip to main content

Cheesy Butternut Squash and Ham Bake

Cheesy pasta baked with butternut squash and chunks of ham with a crunchy cheese topping.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Cheesy Butternut Squash and Ham Bake

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 ↓

Cheesy Butternut Squash and Ham Bake

Serves 8
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1752Calories
94 gProtein
94 gFat
130 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Beef100g cooked250
Pork100g cooked242
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Pumpkinnot 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.

Explore the science

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. Butternut squash + coconuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cheese + cream cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Butternut squash + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, onion, coconut, garlic, cheese, cream cheese, milk):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, onion, coconut, garlic, cheese, cream cheese, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.