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Happy Soup

"I made this soup up one night, from whatever I had on hand! The result was so easy and so delicious!! It made me happy, thus the name!! Try it with garlic and crusty French bread, or even cheese bread!! Garnish with grated Romano cheese."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and romano cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 38 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Cheese + romano cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Pepper + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Basil + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together262 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Chicken + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Pepper + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, basil, cheese, romano cheese, corn):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Lima beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, basil, cheese, romano cheese, corn. 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).