Rustic Thai Beef Soup

Name: Rustic Thai Beef Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 3 Tablespoons Grapeseed Or Vegetable Oil; 2 Tablespoons Chopped Garlic; 3 Tablespoons Red Curry Paste; 1 cup Sliced White Mushrooms, Rinsed And Patted Dry; 1 pound Ground Beef; 5 cups Beef Broth; 1 cup Green Beans, Trimmed And Cut Into 1 Inch Pieces; 2 whole Medium Zucchini, Halved And Cut Into Half-circles; 4 whole Wild Lime Leaves (optional); 3 Tablespoons Fish Sauce; 1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar; ½ teaspoons Salt; ½ teaspoons Black Pepper; 1 bunch Holy Basil (or Any Type Of Basil), Roughly Chopped; 3 Tablespoons Chili-garlic Sauce (red Bottle, Green Cap, Found On Asian Food Aisle); 2 whole Ripe Tomatoes, Cut Into Large Chunks; 8 cups Cooked Jasmine Rice, Amount As Desired For Serving

This delicious soup comes together in just 30 minutes and could be made with any vegetables you have on hand. You’ll be slurping up every last drop in your bowl!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients

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Why it works: Lime and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Rustic Thai Beef Soup

Serves 8

Prep5 min

Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

739Calories

37 gProtein

30 gFat

82 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Basil	5 leaves fresh (2.5g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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.

Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,491 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,232 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,700 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + limetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,411 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

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