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Sweetcorn Soup with Crab and Soured Cream

Ready in ten minutes, this is wonderfully fast comfort food, with cream and crab to add a little luxury.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Sweetcorn Soup with Crab and Soured Cream

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

416Calories
27 gProtein
18 gFat
37 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Sweetcornnot in our table0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0

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

By bbcfood. 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.

  1. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. White wine + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, shallot, sweetcorn, white wine, cream, pepper, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, shallot, sweetcorn, white wine, cream, pepper, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.