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Butternut Squash and Lentil Pot Pie

Fall pot pie!

By naturallyella · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Butternut Squash and Lentil Pot Pie

Why it works: Lentils 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 24 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Butternut Squash and Lentil Pot Pie

Serves 2
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

969Calories
25 gProtein
37 gFat
130 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 15 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Wheatnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Pie Crustnot 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 naturallyella. 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. Lentils + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Lentils + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together255 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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 (lentils, butternut squash, olive, wheat, flour, white wine, rosemary):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against lentils, butternut squash, olive, wheat, flour, white wine, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.