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Pasta Soup with Sweet Potato and Peas

This is a great hearty soup recipe for fall. Filling, full of fiber, low in fat, quick and easy!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Pasta Soup with Sweet Potato and Peas

Why it works: Sweet potato and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Pasta Soup with Sweet Potato and Peas

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

830Calories
23 gProtein
16 gFat
150 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot 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 tastykitchen. 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 + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Pasta + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together176 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Sweet potato + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Garlic + pastatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,079 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, pepper, sweet potato, rice, pasta, beans):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, pepper, sweet potato, rice, pasta, beans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.