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Day-After-Thanksgiving Cranberry Bean Soup

The secret ingredients for this post-Thanksgiving soup are turkey gravy and turkey fat, if you have some. To make the soup even heartier, stir in diced cooked turkey just before serving.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and tomato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 66 recipes mention both. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. 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. Cranberry + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Beans + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,711 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,597 recipes

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

  4. Beans + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,441 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Onion + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21,599 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cranberry, beans, turkey, wild rice, carrot, sherry, tomato):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cranberry, beans, turkey, wild rice, carrot, sherry, tomato. 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).