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Steve's Chicken Noodle Soup

"Easily made, this is a wonderfully flavorful chicken noodle soup that will cure any common disease and make your guests happy."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,808 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (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. Heat the vegetable oil in a large stockpot over medium heat. Add the diced onions, celery and carrot and cook, stirring often, for about 10 minutes until softened.

  2. Stir in the chopped rosemary, tarragon, thyme and parsley and cook for 1 minute until fragrant.

  3. Pour in the chicken broth, raise the heat to high and bring to a boil, about 10 minutes.

  4. Add the cubed raw chicken breast, reduce to a steady simmer and cook uncovered for about 25 minutes, until the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part.

  5. Stir in the egg noodles and simmer for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the noodles are tender.

  6. Season with salt and pepper to taste, simmer 2 minutes more, 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. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

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

  2. Rosemary + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,340 recipes

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

  3. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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 (celery, carrot, rosemary, tarragon, thyme, parsley, chicken):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, carrot, rosemary, tarragon, thyme, parsley, chicken. 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).