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Velvety Pumpkin Soup with Blue Cheese and Bacon

"This quick and tasty holiday soup is brought to a higher level with the addition of blue cheese and bacon. Yum! Yum!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Velvety Pumpkin Soup with Blue Cheese and Bacon

Why it works: Pumpkin and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 67 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Velvety Pumpkin Soup with Blue Cheese and Bacon

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

483Calories
41 gProtein
27 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Pienot 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. Pumpkin + shallottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Butter + blue cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Shallot + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Chicken + blue cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together178 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Pepper + blue cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, shallot, molasses, butter, pepper, blue cheese):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, shallot, molasses, butter, pepper, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.