Why it works: Chicken and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 6,031 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
Tomato Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the chicken or beef in water for four hours.
Strain the broth.
Add the can of tomatoes to the broth and boil for one hour.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together6,031 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Tomatoes
- Provides the main flavour and acidity of the soup.
- Chicken or beef
- Releases savoury flavour into the water to form the broth.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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