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Magic's Green and White Chicken Soup

"This is a rich herbal soup, swimming with big thick homemade egg noodles. Just the thing when you have a cold, or just want something warm in your belly. All the ingredients are either green or white, hence the name. Please enjoy."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Magic's Green and White Chicken Soup

Why it works: Garlic and kale match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Magic's Green and White Chicken Soup

10 servings
Prep1 hr
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

875Calories
53 gProtein
22 gFat
111 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Garlic + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Kale + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + kaletop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, garlic, butter, flour, egg, kale, spinach):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Turmericfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Cuminfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, garlic, butter, flour, egg, kale, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.