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Lecina Juha

A Finnish smoked bone broth soup with lentils, navy beans, onion, celery, and lard.

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Why it works: Lentils and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 135 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Lecina Juha

Time2 hours

Ingredients

Directions

Start the soup

  1. Melt fat in a frying pan, add onion, and brown.

  2. Add all other ingredients to boiling water and let simmer for 2 hours.

Finish the soup

  1. Scrape meat off bones and cut into small pieces.

  2. Add to soup or save to make pockets zlinkrofe.

  3. Add beans and continue to cook for a short time.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

413Calories
19 gProtein
14 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Navy Bean1/2 cup (91g) cooked127
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Lard1 tbsp (12.8g)115
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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. Lentils + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + beanstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Lentils + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together316 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Smoked neck bones
Release smoky, savory flavor and meat into the simmering broth.
Lentils
Starch from the lentils thickens the broth and gives it body.
Navy beans
Add creamy texture and bulk to the soup.
Onion
Browning in fat builds sweet, savory aroma and color.
Lard
Fat carries flavor and helps the onion brown.

The step that matters

Adding the beans near the end. Cooked beans are already tender and can break down and turn mushy if simmered too long. Adding them last and cooking briefly keeps their shape and texture.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lentils, celery, beans, pepper):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against lentils, celery, beans, pepper. 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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