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Sweet Potato Soup

A soup made from sweet potatoes, ginger, stock, water, lime juice, and milk cream.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Soup

Total1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the peeled potatoes, ginger, stock, and water in a large saucepan.

  2. Bring to a boil, then simmer until the potatoes are softened and tender (approximately 30 minutes).

  3. Transfer the contents of the pot to a blender along with the lime juice, and process until smooth.

  4. Return the soup to the pot, stir in the milk, and allow to cook for a few minutes until heated through.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

583Calories
45 gProtein
17 gFat
64 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Waternot 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.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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. Sweet potato + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sweet potato + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Ginger + chickentop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Break down into a soft, thick base that gives the soup its body.
Chicken and vegetable stock
Provides the cooking liquid that softens the potatoes and carries the flavour.
Fresh grated ginger
Adds a warm, aromatic bite that lifts the sweetness of the potatoes.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and balances the sweet potatoes.
Milk cream
Adds richness and a smoother, creamier texture to the finished soup.

The step that matters

Simmer until fully tender before blending. Potatoes that are not fully softened will leave a grainy or lumpy texture after blending, because the starch cells have not broken down enough to purée smoothly.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, ginger, chicken, milk, cream):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Limethe original
  3. Vanillafits about as well
  4. Mangofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, ginger, chicken, milk, cream. 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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