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Asparagus Soup

"Velvety asparagus soup, lovely green color, great with crunchy rolls. My friend gave me this recipe, it originally used chicken broth. When my daughter became vegetarian, I modified it with vegetable broth instead! It also doubles easily. This soup will tempt even asparagus haters!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and garlic work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 604 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Melt the 2 tablespoons butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes until soft and translucent.

  3. Add the trimmed, coarsely chopped asparagus and the garlic powder, and stir for 2 minutes.

  4. Pour in the vegetable broth and bring to a simmer. Cook uncovered for about 8 minutes until the asparagus is very tender.

  5. Carefully blend the soup until smooth, using an immersion blender or a regular blender in batches with the lid vented.

  6. Return the soup to low heat if needed, stir in the 1% milk, and warm through without letting it boil.

  7. Season with the white pepper and serve hot.

By allrecipes. 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. Asparagus + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together604 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Onion + asparagustop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,210 recipes

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

  5. Onion + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together42,827 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, butter, asparagus, garlic, milk):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Pepperbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, butter, asparagus, garlic, milk. 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).