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Simple Sweet Potato Soup

"This delicious soup has only 6 ingredients. It was given to me by my boyfriend's mom who adapted it from another recipe. It can be as thick or thin as you like, and I like it quite thick. To dress it up when serving, drizzle some cream on top and float a lime twist or slice of lime on top. Delicious hot or cold."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Simple Sweet Potato Soup

Why it works: Sweet potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Simple Sweet Potato Soup

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

583Calories
45 gProtein
17 gFat
64 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
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.

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. Sweet potato + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sweet potato + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together306 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + chickentop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,494 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, ginger, chicken, milk):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Limethe original
  3. Mangofits about as well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, ginger, chicken, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.