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Sherried Pumpkin Soup with Candied Apple

A pumpkin soup flavored with sherry, blended with vegetables, rice, and cream, garnished with candied apples and roasted pumpkin seeds.

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Why it works: Carrot and celery 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 ↓

Sherried Pumpkin Soup with Candied Apple

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup base

  1. Sauté all vegetables in clarified butter until translucent.

  2. Deglaze with sherry and reduce by half.

  3. Add chicken stock, rice, salt and pepper, and pumpkin.

  4. Cook until rice is exploded (very overcooked).

  5. Blend or process, then run through a sieve.

  6. Add cream just before reheating.

Prepare the garnish

  1. Roast pumpkin seeds.

  2. Julienne granny smith apples.

  3. Sauté apples in butter and turbinado sugar until caramelized.

Serve

  1. Garnish soup with roasted pumpkin seeds and caramelized apples.

  2. Optionally add dumplings made with biscuits and chopped caramelized apples in the dough.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

729Calories
39 gProtein
22 gFat
91 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Celery + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,326 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Onions, carrots, celery and leeks
Sweet aromatic base that flavours the soup as they soften in butter.
Pumpkin
Main body of the soup, giving its colour, sweetness and smooth texture.
Rice
Breaks down when overcooked, thickening the soup and giving it body.
Sherry
Deglazing liquid that adds acidity and depth once reduced.
Cream
Adds richness and a silky mouthfeel when stirred in before reheating.
Clarified butter
Cooks the vegetables gently and adds a rich, nutty fat.

The step that matters

Cooking the rice until it breaks down. Rice must be cooked well past tender so it dissolves and thickens the soup; undercooked grains leave a gritty texture. Adding cream only just before reheating keeps it from splitting under prolonged heat.

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, carrot, celery, leek, garlic, butter, sherry):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, carrot, celery, leek, garlic, butter, sherry. 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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