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Grilled Zucchini Recipe

This recipe for Grilled Zucchini is one of my favorites for several reasons. First, it's a good way to use up the prolific zucchini of August. Second, it's...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and pumpkin work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 453 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Grilled Zucchini Recipe

2-4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

135Calories
1 gProtein
14 gFat
4 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
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 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. Cucumber + pumpkintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together453 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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