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Wild Rice Soup with Bacon and Corn

A tasty wild rice soup that stands out from the crowd with the addition of thick cut bacon and sweet summer corn.

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Why it works: Wild rice and corn work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 19 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep30 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Wild rice + corntop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Flour + wild ricetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Carrot + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,112 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Carrot + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together793 recipes

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

  5. Basil + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together262 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, carrot, flour, chicken, wild rice, corn):

  1. Celerybetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, carrot, flour, chicken, wild rice, corn. 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).