Name: Curried Butternut Squash Soup for 6 Recipe
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 2 medium size butternut squash; 1 plump yellow pepper; 1 quart low sodium vegetable stock; 2 stalks of celery chopped fine; 1 large fresh carrot, cut in about 1 inch; 2 tablespoons of Bombay yellow curry; 3 tablespoon of olive oil; 2 shallots chopped fine; 1 large white onion chopped fine; 2 cups of cream; 6 slices of bacon fried crisp, broken into bits; 3 serrano peppers; fresh dill; 1 tablespoon of roasted garlic; 2 teaspoons of salt; 2 teaspoons of black pepper

Why it works: Butternut squash and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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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.

Butternut squash + shallottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16,012 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,555 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together21,601 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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, pepper, celery, carrot, olive, shallot, cream):

Parsnipfits better
Spinachfits better
Kalefits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, pepper, celery, carrot, olive, shallot, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Pumpkin	not in our table	0

Curried Butternut Squash Soup for 6 Recipe