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Wild Rice Soup V

"A rich tasting blend of wild rice, ham, vegetables, chicken broth and a touch of sweet Vermouth. Serve with a fruit salad."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Wild rice and flour share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 56 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr 15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, 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. Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the chopped onion and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes until soft.

  2. Sprinkle the flour over the onions and stir for 2 minutes. Pour in the sweet vermouth and stir for 1 minute until it thickens slightly.

  3. Gradually whisk in the chicken broth, then add the uncooked wild rice. Bring to a boil.

  4. Reduce the heat to low, cover partly, and simmer for 50 minutes, stirring now and then, until the wild rice is tender.

  5. Stir in the shredded carrots and cubed ham. Simmer uncovered for 10 minutes until the carrots are tender and the ham is heated through.

  6. Stir in the milk and heat gently for 3 minutes without letting it boil. Stir in the chopped parsley just before serving.

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. Wild rice + flourtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

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

  4. Onion + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21,599 recipes

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

  5. Wild rice + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wild rice, butter, onion, flour, chicken, ham, milk):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wild rice, butter, onion, flour, chicken, ham, milk. 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).