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Seaweed Soup

"This recipe started as something I found off the back of a seaweed package, but has been adapted several times so that it can be made quickly with ingredients from most large grocery stores - or a local Asian grocery if you prefer. Nori is the Japanese word for dried sheets of seaweed."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Seaweed and sesame work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 58 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook18 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, tree nuts, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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

  1. Bring the 2 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot and stir in the chicken bouillon cube until dissolved.

  2. Add the ground pork to the boiling broth, breaking it apart with a spoon. Simmer for about 6 minutes, until no pink remains and it reaches 160°F (71°C) in the thickest part.

  3. Drain the canned water chestnuts and add them to the pot.

  4. Stir in the salt and the broken nori sheets. Simmer gently for about 5 minutes.

  5. Slowly drizzle the beaten egg into the simmering soup while stirring gently, so it forms thin ribbons. Cook about 1 minute, until the egg is set.

  6. Stir in the chopped green onions and sesame oil. Remove from the heat 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. Seaweed + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Pork + chickentop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Water chestnut + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together112 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Onion + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the water chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, chicken, seaweed, egg, onion, sesame):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Water chestnutthe original
  3. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, chicken, seaweed, egg, onion, sesame. 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).