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Harvest Time Pumpkin Soup

A creamy pumpkin soup made with pumpkin, potatoes, carrots, onion, garlic, herbs, cream, butter, and optional soy sauce.

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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Harvest Time Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Cut pumpkin, potatoes and carrots into pieces and steam until tender.

  2. Remove peel from pumpkin.

  3. Save steaming water.

Make the soup

  1. Saute onion and garlic in a little olive oil until transparent.

  2. Puree onion, garlic and vegetables in a food processor, adding reserved water.

  3. Return the puree to a saucepan and add spices, salt and pepper, cream, butter and soy sauce.

  4. If soup is too thick, thin with a little water, milk or chicken stock.

  5. Heat but do not boil.

  6. Garnish with a dollop of sour cream and chives.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

628Calories
25 gProtein
32 gFat
64 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 17 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pienot in our table0
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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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 + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Parsley + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pumpkin
Provides the main body, sweetness and smooth texture of the soup.
Potatoes
Starch that thickens the puree and gives it a creamy body.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, softening the flavour and giving a smooth mouthfeel.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a rounded, silky finish.
Onion
Builds savoury depth as it softens and turns sweet when sauteed.

The step that matters

Heat but do not boil. Boiling a cream-enriched soup can cause the dairy to separate and turn grainy, and it can scorch on the base. Gentle heat keeps the texture smooth.

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, carrot, onion, garlic, olive, parsley, basil):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, carrot, onion, garlic, olive, parsley, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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