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Seven-Vegetable Soup Recipe

A hearty and healthy fall or winter soup from the Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield, filled with celery root, potatoes, fennel, carrots, turnips, and parsnips.

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Why it works: Jerusalem artichoke and parsnip share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

8 to 10 servings
Cook1 hr 20 min

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By chow. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Parsnip + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Parsnip + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 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

Flavor stand-ins for the jerusalem artichoke

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

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Beetrootbetter flavor fit
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, parsnip, potato, carrot, celery, fennel. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).