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Garlic Soup Singapore

A soup of vegetable stock with garlic, paprika, cumin, toasted bread cubes, and optionally fried eggs.

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Why it works: Garlic and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,082 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Garlic Soup Singapore

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Pour the vegetable stock into a pan.

  2. Add the garlic, paprika, cumin and bring to a boil.

  3. Season it.

Assemble and serve

  1. Break the toast into cubes and put into the hot soup bowls.

  2. Place a pan on the heat, lightly oil it and fry the eggs until the white forms.

  3. Tip out one egg into each soup bowl and pour over the boiling soup.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

714Calories
21 gProtein
21 gFat
109 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  2. Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,306 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Cumin + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

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 that carries the garlic, paprika and cumin.
Garlic
Adds sharp aroma and pungent flavour to the broth.
Bread
Toasted cubes soak up broth and add a crisp-soft texture.
Eggs
Partly cooked by the boiling soup, adding richness and a soft, set white.

The step that matters

Tip out one egg into each soup bowl and pour over the boiling soup. The egg white must set in the hot broth while the yolk stays runny. Pouring the soup too early or too cool leaves the white raw or the egg overcooked, so the bowl is best served right away.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, cumin, pepper, bread, egg):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, cumin, pepper, bread, egg. 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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