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Butternut Squash and Shiitake Mushroom Wild Rice Risotto

"A pretty fall risotto with lots of color and texture. This dish makes a great meatless main course or an elegant side dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Butternut Squash and Shiitake Mushroom Wild Rice Risotto

Why it works: Butternut squash and wild rice share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Butternut Squash and Shiitake Mushroom Wild Rice Risotto

10 servings
Prep40 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

883Calories
24 gProtein
36 gFat
115 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
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 allrecipes. 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 + wild ricetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shiitake + wild ricetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shiitake + butternut squashtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Shiitake + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Shiitake + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shiitake, mushroom, butternut squash, olive, maple syrup, butter, wild rice):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shiitake, mushroom, butternut squash, olive, maple syrup, butter, wild rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.