Name: Vegan Roasted Red Pepper Soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 5 whole Large Red Bell Peppers; 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil, Plus Extra For Garnish; ½ whole Large Yellow Onion, Chopped; 2 cloves Garlic, Chopped; 1 pinch Salt And Pepper, to taste; 2 Tablespoons Flour; 2 Tablespoons Balsamic Vinegar; 2 cups Vegetable Stock; 1-½ cup Almond Milk (I Used Vanilla Flavored Almond Milk And It Worked Great); ¼ cups Fresh Parsley For 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).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,673 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Olive + almondtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,875 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, olive, onion, clove, garlic, flour, vinegar):

Chickpeafits better
Black-eyed peafits better
Lentilsfits better
Almondthe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Red Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Almond Milk	1 cup (240ml) unsweetened	30
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Vegan Roasted Red Pepper Soup