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Butternut Squash Tofu Salad with Toasted Hazelnuts

Warm salad, cold weather and Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends. Baked tofu in butternut squash sauce with toasted hazelnuts and simple spices. Divine!

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Butternut Squash Tofu Salad with Toasted Hazelnuts

Why it works: Hazelnut and butternut squash share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Butternut Squash Tofu Salad with Toasted Hazelnuts

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

173Calories
11 gProtein
6 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 11 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Seednot 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. Hazelnut + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Rosemary + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together845 recipes

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

  3. Butternut squash + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Pepper + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tofu, hazelnut, butternut squash, pepper, rosemary, lemon):

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tofu, hazelnut, butternut squash, pepper, rosemary, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.