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Swanson® Roasted Tomato and Barley Soup

"Roasted tomatoes, onion and garlic simmer together with tender barley, celery and Swanson® Chicken Broth to make a robust, rustic-style soup."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and barley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 155 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr 5 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. Add the diced onions and celery and cook, stirring often, for about 8 minutes until softened.

  2. Add the minced garlic and cook for 1 minute until fragrant.

  3. Stir in the diced tomatoes with their juices, the chicken broth and the pearl barley. Bring to a boil.

  4. Reduce the heat to low, partly cover the pot and simmer for about 50 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the barley is tender.

  5. Stir in the chopped parsley just before serving, then ladle the soup into bowls.

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. Tomato + barleytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together155 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + olivetop 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. Celery + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

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

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, onion, garlic, olive, chicken, celery, barley. 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).