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Thai Sweet Corn Soup

A Thai soup made with vegetable stock, lime leaves, lemongrass, ginger, carrots, mushrooms, sweet corn, green onions, chili paste, coriander, and lemon juice.

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Why it works: Lime and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Thai Sweet Corn Soup

Time5-7 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stock

  1. Take the vegetable stock in a pan.

  2. Add lime leaves, lemongrass and ginger.

  3. Bring to a boil and let it boil for 5-7 minutes.

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Chop spring onion into thin slices.

  2. Chop spring onion greens finely.

  3. Slice mushrooms and carrots thinly.

  4. Heat a little oil in a pan.

  5. Add sliced onions and sauté for 30 seconds.

  6. Add carrots, mushrooms and sauté for 2-3 minutes on high heat.

Combine and serve

  1. Strain the stock and pour it over the sautéed vegetables.

  2. Add sweet corn and boil for 2-3 minutes.

  3. Add salt to taste and green chili paste.

  4. Add spring onion greens and coriander leaves.

  5. Add a little lemon juice for sourness and serve hot.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

318Calories
8 gProtein
16 gFat
46 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Lemongrass1 tbsp (6g)5
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot 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.

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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. Lime + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Ginger + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,377 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Lime + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together773 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Vegetable stock
Forms the liquid base of the soup and carries the aromatics and flavour.
Cream-style sweet corn
Adds sweetness and a thick, creamy body to the soup.
Mushrooms
Add savoury depth and a tender, meaty texture to the soup.
Carrots
Add gentle sweetness and colour, and hold their shape in the soup.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and balances the sweetness of the corn.

The step that matters

Boiling the sweet corn. Corn cream thickens and can scorch on the bottom of the pan if left unstirred at a hard boil. Keep the heat controlled and stir so the soup stays smooth and evenly cooked.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, ginger, carrot, mushroom, cream, corn, lemon):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, ginger, carrot, mushroom, cream, corn, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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