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Solanka is a soup made with beef, chicken, sausage, potatoes, vegetables, olives, pickles, lemon, and spices.

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Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Solanka

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Put beef in one pot and chicken in another pot and boil both until ready.

  2. Cut the sausage into little pieces.

  3. Chop potato, tomatoes, pickles, bell pepper, carrot, and onion.

Make the soup

  1. Fry all the vegetables except potato and pickles in a pan with butter and add them to the pot with the beef.

  2. When the chicken is ready, fry it in butter in a pan for a little while and put it into the bouillon with beef.

  3. Add the spices to the broth.

  4. Add potato and sausage.

  5. When the potato is ready, add olives, chopped pickles, and two slices of lemon.

  6. Add garlic, parsley, salt, and pepper.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1072Calories
93 gProtein
46 gFat
71 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Olive1 large (4g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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 + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Potato + tomatotop 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

Beef
Provides the main meaty flavour and body of the broth as it simmers.
Sausage
Adds smoky, savoury flavour and fat to the soup.
Chicken
Adds savoury flavour and tender meat to the soup.
Potatoes
Add starch and bulk, softening as they cook and thickening the broth slightly.
Pickles
Add sourness that balances the rich broth.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the finished soup.

The step that matters

Boil the beef and chicken until ready. Meat cooked in separate pots must be fully tender before the other ingredients are added, because later additions cannot soften tough meat in the short time left. Cooking each meat separately also lets you control its texture.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, chicken, potato, olive, tomato, carrot, onion):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, chicken, potato, olive, tomato, carrot, onion. 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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