Name: Cream of Roasted Tomato Soup with Pesto Shrimp
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2-½ pounds Tomatoes Quartered; 2 whole Onions, Peeled And Quartered; 4 whole Garlic Cloves, Peeled; 1 teaspoon Salt; 1 teaspoon Pepper; 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil; 1 Tablespoon Fresh Thyme (1 Twig); 1 Tablespoon Fresh Rosemary (1 Twig); 1 Tablespoon Fresh Oregano (1 Twig); 4 cups Low Sodium Chicken Broth; ½ cups Milk (or Cream If You Are Feeling Adventurous); 4 cups Fresh Spinach; ½ cups Almond; ½ cups Sharp Cheddar, Shredded; 4 whole Garlic Cloves, Peeled; 1 teaspoon Salt; 1 teaspoon Pepper; ¾ cups Olive Oil; 1 pound Raw Shrimp, Peeled And Cleaned

Why it works: Thyme and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,340 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. 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.

Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,340 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,108 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, garlic, clove, pepper, olive, thyme, rosemary):

Eggplantfits better
Capsicumfits better
Spinachfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, garlic, clove, pepper, olive, thyme, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cheddar Cheese	1 oz (28g)	113
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Almond	1 almond (1.2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Oregano	1 tsp dried (1.8g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Rosemary	1 tsp dried (1.2g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Cream of Roasted Tomato Soup with Pesto Shrimp