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Vegetable Tom Yum Soup

"This is a vegetable version of the classic Thai Tom Yum soup. You can find lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, and galangal (a close relative of ginger) at any Asian supermarket. If you can't find the lime leaves, you can add extra lime juice to taste, but do try to find the lime leaves because they make a big difference. It tastes just like my local Thai restaurant!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Vegetable Tom Yum Soup

Why it works: Lime and lemon grass match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 407 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Vegetable Tom Yum Soup

6 servings
Prep40 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

354Calories
40 gProtein
5 gFat
44 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemon Grassjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Kaffir Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Bok Choy1 cup (70g)9
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Galangalnot 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.

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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. Lime + lemon grasstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together407 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lemon grass + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  4. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Lime + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, lime, lemon grass, fish sauce, shallot, tomato, mushroom):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, lime, lemon grass, fish sauce, shallot, tomato, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.