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Arugula and Basil Pesto Pasta with Butternut Squash and Hazelnuts Recipe

This is a super easy to make pasta dish, that is perfect for vegetarians, and meat lovers alike. It is so rich and tasty you won't even notice you're not eating...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta 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 46 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Arugula and Basil Pesto Pasta with Butternut Squash and Hazelnuts Recipe

2 Servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

719Calories
25 gProtein
42 gFat
66 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 16 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Arugula1 cup (20g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Wheatnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Seednot 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. Pasta + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butternut squash + hazelnuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pasta + hazelnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Coriander + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Pasta + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together853 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the arugula

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, pasta, butternut squash, hazelnut, onion, coriander, basil):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, pasta, butternut squash, hazelnut, onion, coriander, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.