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Creamy Curried Carrot & Butter Bean Soup

A smooth blended vegetable soup with Indian spice to leave simmering for hours - perfect for feeding a crowd

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Creamy Curried Carrot & Butter Bean Soup

Why it works: Turmeric and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,776 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Creamy Curried Carrot & Butter Bean Soup

Serves 8 - 10
Prep25 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

332Calories
10 gProtein
20 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Beannot 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.

By bbcgoodfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Turmeric + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Ginger + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Turmeric + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,253 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Ginger + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Sunflower + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together191 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, turmeric, ginger, coriander, carrot, butter, beans):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, turmeric, ginger, coriander, carrot, butter, beans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.