Why it works: Butternut squash and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
Roasted Vegetable Tart
8 servingsIngredients
Directions
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 14 of 16 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Goat Cheese | 1 oz (28g) | 103 |
| Cherry | 1 cup (138g) | 87 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Red Bell Pepper | 1 medium (119g) | 31 |
| Fennel Bulb | 1/2 bulb (87g) | 27 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Thyme | 1 tsp dried (1.4g) | 4 |
| Vinegar | 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled | 3 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Pie Crust | not in our table | 0 |
| Pumpkin | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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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.
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Butternut squash + sweet potatotop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together68 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Butternut squash + fenneltop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together22 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Sweet potato + fenneltop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together28 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Olive + butternut squashtop 7% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together689 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Olive + fenneltop 7% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1,344 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, olive, butternut squash, sweet potato, vinegar, onion, fennel):
- Limefits better
- Avocadofits better
- Cherryfits better
- Cherry tomatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, olive, butternut squash, sweet potato, vinegar, onion, fennel. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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