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Halloween Prawns with Spicy Squash Soup Recipe

Great for Halloween parties, this recipe makes the most of seasonal squashes, and the prawns are a fun snack to accompany the soup.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sunflower and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 194 recipes. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

Halloween Prawns with Spicy Squash Soup Recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

497Calories
29 gProtein
28 gFat
38 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Shrimp100g cooked99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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. Sunflower + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together934 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butternut squash + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, ginger, butternut squash, coconut, milk, fish sauce, lime):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, ginger, butternut squash, coconut, milk, fish sauce, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.