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Curried Butternut Squash Soup with Coconut and Lime

Fragrant, sweet and spicy, this butternut squash soup is spiked with Thai flavors. Garnish it with the leaves and flowers of Thai purple basil, if you like. Pumpkin may be used in place of the squash; both will give the immune system a powerful beta-carotene boost.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Curried Butternut Squash Soup with Coconut and Lime

Why it works: Shallot and butternut squash share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Curried Butternut Squash Soup with Coconut and Lime

Serves 4.

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

635Calories
36 gProtein
45 gFat
26 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
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot 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 williamssonoma. 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. Shallot + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Butternut squash + coconuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, shallot, ginger, garlic, clove, butternut squash, chicken):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Coconutthe original
  4. Lemonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, shallot, ginger, garlic, clove, butternut squash, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.