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French Onion Soup

To beat the chill, you can’t go wrong with a piping hot bowl of French Onion Soup. Flavorful and topped off with melted Gruyere goodness. Switch it up with Havarti, provolone or a combo of all three! This will yield 4 to 6 servings, depending on the size of your bowls.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,091 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Onion + beeftop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,971 recipes

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

  3. Red wine + beeftop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,017 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Olive + red winetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Olive + beeftop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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