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Orange Vegetables Soup

"This soup is made from orange-colored vegetables: pumpkin, butternut squash, carrots, and sweet potatoes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Orange Vegetables Soup

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Orange Vegetables Soup

6 quarts
Prep1 hr
Cook1 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

711Calories
16 gProtein
37 gFat
86 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
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Orange Juice1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Cloves1 tsp ground (2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Waternot 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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Nutmeg + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Butternut squash + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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, pumpkin, celery, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, carrot):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, pumpkin, celery, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, carrot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.