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Spring Vegetable Soup with Parmesan and Pasta Stars

This fresh, pretty soup is everything a good bowl of soup should be: comforting, nourishing and delicious. Look for fresh pea shoots at farmers’ markets in early spring. Tender and sweet, they deliver the flavor of fresh peas without the effort of shelling. If pea shoots are unavailable, use the same quantity of baby spinach in their place.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Spring Vegetable Soup with Parmesan and Pasta Stars

Why it works: Pepper and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,555 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Spring Vegetable Soup with Parmesan and Pasta Stars

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

607Calories
53 gProtein
20 gFat
52 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Pea Shootsnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  2. Pasta + carrottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together435 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Pasta + chickentop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,024 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Pasta + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Chicken + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

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

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, egg, pepper, chicken, cheese):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, egg, pepper, chicken, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.