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Butternut Squash and Root Vegetable Hotpot

This filling, slow-cooked, vegetarian hotpot with fluffy, buttery dumplings, is a cheap and easy family staple.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Butternut Squash and Root Vegetable Hotpot

Why it works: Butternut squash and parsnip share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Butternut Squash and Root Vegetable Hotpot

Serves 4
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

716Calories
18 gProtein
14 gFat
132 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Parsnip1/2 cup (78g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Waternot 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 + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,097 recipes

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

  3. Butternut squash + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butternut squash + flourtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Parsnip + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, butternut squash, onion, carrot, parsnip, flour, spinach):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, butternut squash, onion, carrot, parsnip, flour, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.