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Cold Sweet Potato Soup & Mint

Delicious soup offering before your holiday meal. I serve this soup year round, too!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Cold Sweet Potato Soup & Mint

Why it works: Allspice and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,536 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Cold Sweet Potato Soup & Mint

Serves 2
Prep8 min
Cook14 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

372Calories
13 gProtein
14 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Peppermintnot 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. Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sweet potato + allspicetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  4. Allspice + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, cream, milk, allspice, cinnamon):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Clovefits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, cream, milk, allspice, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.