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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: Hazelnut and pine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

2 Servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Hazelnut + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pasta + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Basil + pinetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Coriander + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Pasta + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

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

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Kalebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, pasta, butternut squash, hazelnut, coriander, arugula, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).