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My Chicken Pho Recipe

"This is one of my favorite soups!!! I love going to Vietnamese restaurants, but since I came up with this soup, we stay in!!!"

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My Chicken Pho Recipe

Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

My Chicken Pho Recipe

6 cups pho
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

323Calories
41 gProtein
9 gFat
18 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
Chicken100g cooked165
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemon Grassjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Bok Choy1 cup (70g)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Beannot 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. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Ginger + lemon grasstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Garlic + lemon grasstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together442 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, chicken, fish sauce, garlic, ginger, lemon grass, onion):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, chicken, fish sauce, garlic, ginger, lemon grass, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.