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Winter Squash Tamale Pie with Harissa

Winter Squash Tamale Pie is a healthy and easy dish that’s wonderful to prepare when it’s cold outside!

This recipe’s ingredient list has no crust or pastry, so it bakes more like a fruit dish than a pastry pie.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and harissa work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 91 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Tomato + harissatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Beans + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,711 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Beans + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Corn + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,098 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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, onion, pepper, beans, corn, tomato, harissa):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Butternut squashthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, pepper, beans, corn, tomato, harissa. 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).