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Pork and Cabbage Soup

"Pork sausage, cabbage, potatoes, and onion make for a quick, delicious soup."

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Why it works: Pork and cabbage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 919 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat a large pot over medium heat, add the pork sausage, and break it up as it browns, about 6 minutes, until it reaches 160°F (71°C) inside and is no longer pink.

  2. Add the diced onion and garlic to the pot and cook, stirring, for about 2 minutes until softened.

  3. Pour in the beef broth and the water, then stir in the beef bouillon granules, diced potatoes and dried marjoram. Bring to a boil.

  4. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for about 10 minutes, until the potatoes are nearly tender.

  5. Stir in the finely chopped cabbage and simmer for about 6 minutes, until the cabbage is tender.

  6. Season with salt and pepper to taste, then ladle into bowls and 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. Pork + cabbagetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together919 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,669 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Pork + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the marjoram

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, beef, cabbage, potato, onion, garlic, pepper):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Marjoramthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, beef, cabbage, potato, onion, garlic, 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).