Name: Chupe De Camarones
Ingredients: 3 tbl Salad oil; 2 cl Garlic, peeled, minced; 1 lrg Onion, peeled, chopped; 2 lrg Tomatoes, cut into eighths; 2 sm Raw potato cubes; 1/2 tsp Ground chili pepper; 1 1/2 tsp Seasoned salt; 2 tsp Salt; 1/4 tsp Crushed red pepper; Few drops Tabasco water; 1 1/4 cup Milk; 3 med Flounder fillets; 1/4 cup Cream cheese; 1/2 lb Raw shrimp, shelled and cleaned; 12 oz Can whole-kernel corn; Few sprigs fresh mint

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

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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.

Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Garlic + potatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Flounder fillets: Provides the firm, flaky fish that forms the base of each serving.
Cream cheese: Adds richness and a creamy body to the soup when beaten with milk and stirred in.
Tomatoes: Contribute acidity, body and savory flavor as they cook down into the soup.
Potatoes (in the method): Release starch as they cook, thickening the soup and giving it body.
Milk: Adds creaminess and softens the flavor of the spiced tomato broth.
Shrimp: Adds sweet, tender seafood flavor and texture to the soup.

The step that matters

Adding the cream-cheese mixture to the soup. Cream cheese can curdle or turn grainy if it is added to a boiling liquid. Beating it smooth with milk first and stirring it in gently helps keep the soup silky.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, onion, potato, pepper, milk, cream cheese, shrimp):

Chivefits better
Capsicumfits about as well
Tomatothe original
Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, onion, potato, pepper, milk, cream cheese, shrimp. 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.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Salad	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0
Peppermint	not in our table	0

Chupe De Camarones