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Squash and Pomegranate Salad

A light, delicious and really nutritious dish. The roasted squash squares are perfectly squishy, the pomegranates sate cravings both for something crunchy and for something sweet and the broccoli, beans and tomatoes just finish it off perfectly as the lime brings out their beautiful flavours.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Squash and Pomegranate Salad

Why it works: Quinoa 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 26 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Squash and Pomegranate Salad

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

469Calories
16 gProtein
6 gFat
97 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Quinoa + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Quinoa + pomegranatetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Butternut squash + pomegranatetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pomegranate + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Quinoa + broccolitop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, butternut squash, broccoli, pomegranate, lime):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, butternut squash, broccoli, pomegranate, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.