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French Onion Soup VI

A soup made from sliced onions, margarine, flour, onion soup mix, water, topped with garlic toast and mozzarella cheese.

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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 cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

French Onion Soup VI

Time30 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Sauté onions in margarine until clear.

  2. Add salt, pepper, and flour until absorbed.

  3. Add soup mix and water.

  4. Cook for 30 minutes.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour soup over garlic toast in crocks or oven-proof bowls.

  2. Top with grated cheese and put in oven for 3 minutes until cheese melts.

  3. Serve immediately.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

690Calories
21 gProtein
19 gFat
107 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 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
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot in our table0
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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + mozzarella cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Flour + garlictop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Onions
Slowly softened onions give the soup its sweetness and main body.
Margarine
Fat that carries the onions' cooking and helps them brown gently.
Flour
Thickens the soup so it has body rather than being watery.
Mozzarella cheese
Melts over the top to form a stretchy, browned crust.

The step that matters

Saute the onions until clear. Onions cooked too quickly can scorch before they soften, leaving bitter flavor. Cooking them gently until translucent builds the soup's sweetness and depth.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, flour, garlic, mozzarella cheese):

  1. Eggplantfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, flour, garlic, mozzarella cheese. 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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