Name: Cold Avocado Soup
Ingredients: 1 medium chopped onion; 2 cloves garlic minced; 1 tablespoon ground coriander; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 4 teaspoon of olive oil; 4 small ripe avocados peeled and chopped; 2 quarts chicken stock; 1/2 cup of green bell peppers chopped; salt pepper to taste; For garnish; camarones picadillos; Pico de gallo with dice shrimp cilantro leaves; 2 large ripe tomatoes chopped; 1/2 onion chopped fine; 1 chili chopped fine; 1 cove garlic chopped fine; 2 cups of cook shrimp dice; 4 teaspoons of lemon juice; 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper corns; salt to taste; 1/2 teaspoon of celery salt 1 sprig of chopped cilantro or 3 culantro leaves

Why it works: Coriander and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,866 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. 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.

Coriander + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,866 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Coriander + avocadotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,094 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cumin + avocadotop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together415 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Avocados: Give the soup its creamy body, rich texture, and mild flavor.
Chicken stock: Forms the liquid base that carries the flavors and makes the soup pourable.
Olive oil: Carries the aromatics and adds a fat-based richness to the soup.
Onion: Adds savory sweetness and aroma as it softens in the oil.
Green bell peppers: Add a fresh, vegetal note to the cooked base.

The step that matters

Cool before pureeing and serving chilled. Blending hot avocado can dull its bright green color and cooking it too long can turn it brownish and muddy. Cooling it to room temperature first helps keep the soup fresh-tasting and creamy green.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, coriander, cumin, olive, avocado, chicken):

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Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, coriander, cumin, olive, avocado, chicken. 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
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Green Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Coriander	not in our table	0

Cold Avocado Soup