Name: Creamy Red Pepper Soup with Smoked Paprika Yogurt and Crumbled Chorizo
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon FOR THE SOUP:; 1 whole Olive Oil; 2 cloves Onion, Diced; ¼ cups Garlic, Minced; 1 whole White Wine; 1 stalk Carrot, Peeled And Coarsely Chopped; 1 whole Celery, Coarsely Chopped; 3 whole Medium Sized Potato, Peeled And Diced Into 1-inch Cubes; 3 cups Large Red Peppers, Seeded And Diced; 1 cup Stock (Chicken Or Vegetable); ½ teaspoons Milk; 1 teaspoon Salt, To Taste (up To Double This Amount); 1 teaspoon Sugar; ½ cups Balsamic Vinegar; ¼ teaspoons FOR THE SMOKED PAPRIKA YOGURT:; ½ cups Yogurt

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. 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.

Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Garlic + potatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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 (olive, onion, garlic, white wine, carrot, celery, potato):

Thymefits better
Parsleyfits better
Cuminfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, garlic, white wine, carrot, celery, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soup	not in our table	0

Creamy Red Pepper Soup with Smoked Paprika Yogurt and Crumbled Chorizo