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Egg Drop Soup

"After many many trips to different Chinese restaurants looking for a good bowl of egg drop soup, I decided to take it upon myself to create what I feel is the ultimate in egg drop soup. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Egg Drop Soup

Why it works: Sesame and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 89 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Egg Drop Soup

1 cup
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

834Calories
52 gProtein
24 gFat
98 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
White Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Sesame + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together89 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Chicken + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together939 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Chicken + chivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together572 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Sauce + sesametop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together924 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + chivetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,624 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the white pepper

The recipe marks white pepper as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sauce, sesame, egg, chive):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, sesame, egg, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.