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Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup

"A delightfully rich-tasting soup. My husband likes this soup so much he refers to all butternut squashes as soup now. I recommend this with the silken tofu instead of milk - it adds protein to a fiber-rich soup, and no one will know it's there if you don't tell them! Serve warm with a sprinkling of grated Parmesan or Romano and some crusty toasted bread on the side."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup

Why it works: Butternut squash and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup

6 servings
Prep35 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

448Calories
15 gProtein
17 gFat
63 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Tofu100g firm76
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Coriandernot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butternut squash + sweet potatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Butternut squash + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together83 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  5. Turmeric + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,253 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 (butter, butternut squash, sweet potato, thyme, ginger, turmeric, coriander):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, butternut squash, sweet potato, thyme, ginger, turmeric, coriander. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.