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Lime-Crab Soup

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Lime-Crab Soup

Why it works: Lime and avocado match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,117 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Lime-Crab Soup

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

650Calories
42 gProtein
31 gFat
60 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Chicken100g cooked165
Tortilla Chip1 medium flour (45g)140
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0
Seednot 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 epicurious. 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. Lime + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lime + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,216 recipes

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

  3. Avocado + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together415 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Lime + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together773 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Corn + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, corn, sauce, chicken, avocado):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cuminthe original
  3. Jalapenofits less well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

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