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Quick and Easy Vegetable Beef Soup

"Vegetable beef soup with tomatoes that's quick, easy, and tasty! May use 2 pounds of lean beef or 2 pounds lean turkey. We like to combine one pound of each! Serve with cornbread or Ritz® crackers!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Quick and Easy Vegetable Beef Soup

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Quick and Easy Vegetable Beef Soup

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

612Calories
60 gProtein
33 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Chicken100g cooked165
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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.

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Tomato + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,979 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Basil + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Swap the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, turkey, onion, tomato, garlic, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Celeryfits about as well
  3. Oreganofits about as well
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, turkey, onion, tomato, garlic, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.