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Easy Roasted Vegetables

These easy roasted vegetables make it so easy and insanely delicious to eat healthy. Loaded with flavour and ready within 35 minutes!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and basil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,868 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C) and line a large baking sheet with foil.

  2. Peel the half butternut squash, remove the seeds, and cut the flesh into bite-sized cubes.

  3. Peel the beet roots and cut them into bite-sized cubes. Cut the small potatoes into similar-sized pieces.

  4. Toss the squash, beets and potatoes with the olive oil, paprika and dried basil until evenly coated.

  5. Spread the vegetables in a single layer on the baking sheet so they do not overlap.

  6. Roast for 30 minutes, turning the pieces once halfway through, until tender and browned at the edges.

  7. Check that the potatoes and beets are easily pierced with a fork, then serve hot.

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. Olive + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,868 recipes

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

  2. Potato + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Butternut squash + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Potato + basiltop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together518 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Butternut squash + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together656 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (potato, olive, basil):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Butternut squashthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, olive, basil. 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).