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Sweet Pea Soup with Fresh Sorrel

Depending on how fresh they are, peas can vary greatly in how long they take to cook. If you can taste before you buy, choose peas that are tender and sweet rather than starchy. Crème fraîche, a cultured cream, adds a silky smoothness and tart flavor to the soup, while sorrel gives it a fresh, lemony tang. If you can’t find sorrel, use lemon basil or regular basil.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Leek and sorrel match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 112 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

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

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By williamssonoma. 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. Leek + sorreltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together112 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  3. Peas + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together249 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Peas + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  5. Chicken + leektop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, chicken, olive, sorrel, pepper):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, chicken, olive, sorrel, pepper. 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).