Name: Roasted Carrot & Coconut Milk Soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 2-½ pounds Carrots, Peeled And Cut Into 3" Pieces; 1-½ whole Onions, Peeled And Cut Into Wedges; 4 whole Roma Tomatoes, Sliced In Half; 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil, Divided; 1 head Garlic; 6 cups Chicken Or Vegetable Stock; 1 piece (1 Inch Size) Ginger, Peeled And Grated; 2 Limes, Zested; 3 ounces, fluid Lime Juice; 2 cups Coconut Milk; 8 whole Lime Wedges, For Garnish (optional); 1 whole Greek Yogurt To Garnish (optional)

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. 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.

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).
Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,621 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Carrot + gingertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,377 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the lime

The recipe marks lime as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, onion, tomato, olive, garlic, chicken, ginger):

Avocadofits about as well
Limethe original
Cherryfits less well
Coconutfits less well

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2

Roasted Carrot & Coconut Milk Soup