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Marco Pierre White's Pumpkin Soup Recipe

The perfect soup for a blustery autumnal day. You'll need carrot juice, Parmesan and double cream for this recipe.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,555 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Marco Pierre White's Pumpkin Soup Recipe

10 people
Prep25 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

311Calories
11 gProtein
26 gFat
9 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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.

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. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Olive + pumpkintop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,108 recipes

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

  3. Olive + carrottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,861 recipes

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

  4. Olive + parmesan cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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 (olive, carrot, parmesan cheese, cream, pepper):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, carrot, parmesan cheese, cream, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.