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Kold Sommersuppe

A chilled cucumber, tomato, and pepper soup with bread crumbs, served cold with French bread sticks.

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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Kold Sommersuppe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Peel the cucumber and cut it into dice.

  2. Deseed the tomatoes and cut into dice.

  3. Cut the green pepper into dice and chop the onion.

  4. Set aside a little cucumber, onion, and green pepper for garnish.

Make the soup

  1. Mix the vegetables, bread crumbs, and water, then blend until smooth.

  2. Add the wine vinegar, oil, and season with salt.

  3. Refrigerate until very cold.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish with the remaining cucumber, onion, and green pepper.

  2. Serve with French bread sticks.

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Explore the science

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 + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Cucumber + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,405 recipes

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

  4. Cucumber + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,556 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Thicken the soup and give it a smooth, body-rich texture when blended.
Tomatoes
Add juiciness and a fresh, slightly acidic base to the soup.
Cucumber
Adds cool, crisp moisture and a mild fresh flavour.
Red wine vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the vegetables.
Oil
Adds fat, giving a smoother mouthfeel and rounder flavour.

The step that matters

Refrigerate until very cold. Chilling firms the flavours and makes the soup taste fresh and refreshing. Serving it warm would taste flat and dull the cold, crisp character the dish depends on.

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, cucumber, tomato, onion, pepper, garlic, red wine):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cucumber, tomato, onion, pepper, garlic, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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