Name: Cranked Up Corn Chowder
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 4 ears corn, kernels cut from cob; 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided; 1 onion, diced; 1 cup shredded carrot; 1 stalk celery, chopped; 1 clove garlic; 4 cups chicken broth; 4 red potatoes, cut into bite-size pieces; 2 cups light cream; 1 (15 ounce) can cream-style corn; 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley; salt and ground black pepper to taste; Roux:; 3 tablespoons butter; 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

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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.

Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,873 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Corn + carrottop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together794 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, olive, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, chicken):

Cuminfits better
Thymefits better
Parsleyfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, olive, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Cranked Up Corn Chowder