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Charred Eggplant Soup with Cumin and Greek Yogurt

The supple texture of cooked eggplant is transformed into a soup that needs no cream to achieve its silken texture. Grilled eggplant slices assert their smokiness, shallots and garlic add pungent sweetness, white wine brings brightness, and a touch of musky cumin gives the soup an exotic flavor.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 975 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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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. Cumin + yogurttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together975 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together776 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Eggplant + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, eggplant, tomato, carrot, garlic, thyme, cumin):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, eggplant, tomato, carrot, garlic, thyme, cumin. 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).