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A savory soup of butternut squash, potato, apples, spices, stock, and brandy, finished with cream.

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Apple Soup

Why it works: Butternut squash and turmeric share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 83 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Apple Soup

Time25 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup base

  1. Heat the sunflower oil and butter in a large pan. Add the chopped onion and sauté until golden.

  2. Add the butternut squash, potato, apples, and spices; toss together over low heat for about 2 minutes, until coated and aromas released.

  3. Add the chicken stock, salt, bay leaf, and sugar; bring to a boil, cover, and simmer gently for about 25 minutes until the vegetables are soft.

Blend and finish

  1. Cool the soup until lukewarm, then remove the bay leaf.

  2. Puree the soup in a blender until absolutely smooth.

  3. Reheat gently in a clean pan, adding milk as needed to reach a medium-thick consistency.

  4. Add the brandy and heat through without boiling.

  5. Ladle the soup into warmed bowls, top each with whipped or soured cream, and dust with paprika or sprinkle with chopped fresh chives.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

784Calories
46 gProtein
24 gFat
101 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 15 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Brandynot 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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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. Butternut squash + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together83 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Turmeric + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,197 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butternut squash + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sunflower + butternut squashtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + potatotop 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

Butternut squash
Breaks down into the soup's thick, smooth body and adds natural sweetness.
Potato
Starch thickens the puree, giving the soup a creamy, full texture.
Apples
Soften while cooking, adding fruity sweetness that balances the spices.
Onion
Browns in the fat to build savoury sweetness as the base flavour.
Milk
Adds richness and softens the flavour, adjusting the final consistency.
Chicken stock
Provides the liquid that cooks the vegetables and carries the flavour.

The step that matters

Heating the spices in fat before adding liquid. Gently toasting spices in oil releases their fat-soluble aroma compounds, which dissolve into the soup. Skipping this leaves the spices tasting flat and raw.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, butter, onion, butternut squash, potato, turmeric, cinnamon):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, butter, onion, butternut squash, potato, turmeric, cinnamon. 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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