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Restaurant-Style Egg Drop Soup

This simple egg drop soup tastes like it came from your favorite restaurant.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Restaurant-Style Egg Drop Soup

Why it works: Chicken and ginger are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,494 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Restaurant-Style Egg Drop Soup

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

701Calories
50 gProtein
10 gFat
96 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Chives1 tbsp (3g)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.

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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. Chicken + gingertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Ginger + chivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Chicken + chivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together572 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chive + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,624 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, chive, egg):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

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