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Christmas Roasted Vegetables

"An exquisite dish of roasted winter vegetables, flavored with seasonings. It's a great side dish for beef, as well as pork and poultry."

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Christmas Roasted Vegetables

Why it works: Rosemary and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,340 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Christmas Roasted Vegetables

8 servings
Prep45 min
Cook1 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

385Calories
7 gProtein
15 gFat
62 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Rutabaganot 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.

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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. Rosemary + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

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

  2. Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Butternut squash + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, sweet potato, rutabaga, potato, carrot, rosemary, thyme):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, sweet potato, rutabaga, potato, carrot, rosemary, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.