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Crema De Cepa De Apio

A creamy celery soup with carrots, potatoes, and cumin.

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Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Crema De Cepa De Apio

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Heat the oil in a pan on medium/low heat.

  2. When hot, add the chopped onion.

  3. Fry until soft.

  4. Add the cumin powder and the bay leaf.

  5. Add the celery.

  6. After a couple of minutes, add the carrots, celery root, and potatoes, keeping on very low heat.

  7. Cover the pan and sweat for several minutes, stirring occasionally.

  8. Add the remaining vegetable stock and simmer until the vegetables are cooked.

Blend and serve

  1. Leave to cool.

  2. Once cool, blend the soup.

  3. Add salt and pepper to your liking, adjust water if necessary.

  4. Reheat and serve with fennel leaves as garnish.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

402Calories
8 gProtein
15 gFat
64 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Celery Stalks1 stalk (40g)6
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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.

Explore the science

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. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Cumin + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together276 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Carrot + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Carrot + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Celery + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together276 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Break down when blended, giving the soup a thick, smooth body.
Celery root
Adds body and a mild celery flavour once softened and blended.
Carrots
Add sweetness and colour, and thicken the soup when blended.
Onion
Builds a sweet, savoury aromatic base as it softens in oil.
Vegetable stock
Provides the cooking liquid that softens the vegetables and carries flavour.

The step that matters

Sweating the vegetables on very low heat. Keeping the heat very low and the pan covered softens the vegetables gently without browning them. Browning would add bitter, roasted notes that clash with a delicate cream soup.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, celery, carrot, potato, cumin, pepper, fennel):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, celery, carrot, potato, cumin, pepper, fennel. 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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