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Sweet Potato and Parsnip Soup Recipe

Simon Goodman, Head Chef at the Duke of Cumberland, Pub Chef of the year 2010, serves a delightfully warming winter soup.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and parsnip share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sweet Potato and Parsnip Soup Recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

539Calories
7 gProtein
31 gFat
62 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Parsnip1/2 cup (78g)55
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Trufflenot 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 lovefood. 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 + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sweet potato + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Parsnip + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsnip, onion, butter, cream, pepper, truffle, chive):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsnip, onion, butter, cream, pepper, truffle, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.