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Watercress Soup Recipe

Elegant, light, healthy and more-ish, watercress soup is a great option for lunch. Beef it up with cheddar toasties.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Watercress and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 293 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, soy, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By lovefood. 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. Watercress + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Potato + cheddar cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together932 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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, potato, watercress, pepper, cheddar cheese, mustard, sauce):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Capersabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, potato, watercress, pepper, cheddar cheese, mustard, sauce. 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).