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Spicy Chicken Soup

"This is a simple recipe for a satisfying spicy chicken soup. Green chilies, onion and garlic make this a good soup for people with a cold."

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Why it works: Garlic and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,839 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

8 -1 cup servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped onion and diced green bell pepper and cook, stirring often, until softened, about 5 minutes.

  3. Add the pressed garlic and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute until fragrant.

  4. Pour in the chicken broth and the diced tomatoes with green chile peppers, including their liquid. Bring to a boil over high heat.

  5. Stir in the chopped cooked chicken breast, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer uncovered for 8 minutes.

  6. Keep simmering until the chicken is steaming hot all the way through, reaching 165°F (74°C), then serve.

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. Garlic + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, garlic, chicken, tomato):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Eggplantabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, garlic, chicken, tomato. 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).