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Ahi Tuna Fish Soup

"This fish soup is SO SIMPLE, DELICIOUS, and amazingly HEALTHY for you! You can make it with things you probably already have in your fridge and is great served with a cup of rice! Try it with frozen albacore tuna too! Feel free to use any vegetables you want, as well as other types of thick steak fish such as albacore tuna. I buy my frozen fish for soups at Trader Joe's which are both affordable and very fresh!"

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Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,711 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Put the water and ginger slices in a pot, bring to a boil, then reduce to a gentle simmer and cook for 15 minutes to flavor the broth.

  2. Add the Chinese long beans and chayote wedges to the simmering broth and cook for 5 minutes until they begin to soften.

  3. Stir in the chopped bok choy and chopped tomato and simmer for 3 minutes until the bok choy is wilted.

  4. Pat the thawed ahi tuna steaks dry, cut them into bite-size pieces, and slide them into the soup. Simmer 4 to 5 minutes until the tuna turns opaque and flakes, reaching 145°F (63°C) inside.

  5. Remove and discard the ginger slices, stir in the chopped green onions, and ladle the soup into bowls to serve hot.

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

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

  2. Onion + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20,622 recipes

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

  3. Beans + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,241 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,895 recipes

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

  5. Ginger + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,597 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 chayote

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, ginger, onion, tomato):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Chayotethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, ginger, onion, 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).