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Mediterranean Chicken, Bean & Pasta Soup

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Mediterranean Chicken, Bean & Pasta Soup

Why it works: Shallot and pasta share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 67 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Mediterranean Chicken, Bean & Pasta Soup

Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

678Calories
52 gProtein
26 gFat
58 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Celery Stalks1 stalk (40g)6
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Cannellini Beannot 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 cookincanuck. 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. Shallot + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  4. Beans + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together176 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Tomato + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 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 shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, carrot, celery, tomato, chicken, beans, pasta):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, carrot, celery, tomato, chicken, beans, pasta. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.