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Green Chile Chicken Soup

"One of our favorites. A spicy, tasty soup. If you like, you can add 1 cooked potato cut into pieces at the end before serving. The more chiles you use, the spicier the soup!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,839 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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 butter in a large pot over medium heat for about 3 minutes.

  2. Whisk in the all-purpose flour and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly, until it smells nutty and is smooth.

  3. Slowly whisk in the milk and chicken broth, a little at a time, to avoid lumps.

  4. Raise the heat to medium-high and bring the mixture to a gentle simmer, stirring often, about 8 minutes.

  5. Reduce the heat to low and simmer uncovered for 20 minutes, stirring every few minutes, until the soup thickens.

  6. Stir in the cooked chicken pieces, chopped green chile peppers, and garlic powder.

  7. Simmer for another 10 minutes until the chicken is heated through.

  8. Season with salt and pepper to taste, then 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. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

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

  3. Pepper + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Milk + chickentop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, milk, chicken, pepper):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cardamomabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, milk, chicken, pepper. 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).