Skip to main content

Taco Soup VIII

"This is the best taco soup, and the easiest I have ever made! Great for busy days, you can put it in the slow cooker and you're done!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Taco Soup VIII

Why it works: Tomato and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,099 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Taco Soup VIII

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

802Calories
51 gProtein
30 gFat
86 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Taconot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Tomato + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Beef + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Kidney beans + cheddar cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, tomato, sauce, corn, cheddar cheese):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Peanutfits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, tomato, sauce, corn, cheddar cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.