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Spanish Garlic Soup

A soup made with garlic, water, chicken broth, bread, paprika, salt, and eggs.

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Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Spanish Garlic Soup

Time25 minutes simmer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the oil over medium heat in a large saucepan.

  2. Sauté the garlic for 4 minutes, or until brown.

  3. Add the water and broth, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat.

  4. Simmer for 25 minutes, or until the garlic is tender.

  5. Add the bread, paprika and salt, then stir to break up the bread pieces (cut them up if needed).

  6. Add the beaten eggs gradually, while stirring, to form long threads.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

821Calories
50 gProtein
24 gFat
97 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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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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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Olive + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Garlic
Provides the main flavour, which mellows and sweetens as it simmers until tender.
Eggs
Set into soft threads in the hot broth, giving the soup its silky texture.
Bread
Soaks up liquid and thickens the soup, giving it body.
Chicken broth
Forms the savoury liquid base that carries the other flavours.

The step that matters

Adding the eggs. Eggs must go in slowly while the liquid is stirred. Stirring spreads the egg so it cooks into fine threads rather than clumps. Adding it too fast, or into liquid that is not hot enough, can leave lumps.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, chicken, bread, egg):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Parsleyfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, chicken, 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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