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Acorn Squash with Red Onion and Currants Recipe

Roasted acorn squash with a hint of sweet and a bite of acid is great alongside just about any hearty main dish. Try it with roast turkey or Pear Pork.Game plan...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Acorn Squash with Red Onion and Currants Recipe

8 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

431Calories
2 gProtein
26 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
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 chow. 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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. Acorn + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the acorn

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, garlic, clove, sherry, vinegar, onion, pepper):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Acornthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, garlic, clove, sherry, vinegar, onion, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.