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Squash Salad with Oranges and Olives

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By delishhh · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Squash Salad with Oranges and Olives

Why it works: Butternut squash and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Squash Salad with Oranges and Olives

6 servings
Prep45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

262Calories
3 gProtein
17 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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 delishhh. 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 + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Butternut squash + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the nuts

The recipe marks nuts as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, shallot, olive, orange, parsley, pepper):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, shallot, olive, orange, parsley, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.