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Butternut Squash Soup with a Kick

"A great soup to warm you up in a hurry. Great any time of year. You can play with the volumes of jalapeno and ginger and sour cream, to whatever you like. You can vary the amount of sour cream you add depending on how 'hot' you want the soup to taste."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Butternut Squash Soup with a Kick

Why it works: Jalapeno and butternut squash share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Butternut Squash Soup with a Kick

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

912Calories
61 gProtein
52 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
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

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. Jalapeno + butternut squashtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Ginger + butternut squashtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + butternut squashtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together692 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Ginger + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, ginger, pepper, butternut squash, chicken, evaporated milk):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, ginger, pepper, butternut squash, chicken, evaporated milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.