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Lithuanian Cabbage Soup

A soup of cabbage, carrots, sauerkraut, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and seasonings.

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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 ↓

Lithuanian Cabbage Soup

Time1 hour, then 1/2 hour more

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Simmer the soup stock for 1 hour.

  2. Add 2 grated carrots, 1 small chopped head of cabbage, 1 can (1 lb.) sauerkraut, drained and washed, and 1 can whole tomatoes.

  3. Simmer for 1/2 hour.

Serve and vary

  1. Serve with rye bread.

  2. Variation: omit carrots and tomatoes and add 1 can of cream of mushroom soup.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

106Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Soupnot 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. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Clove + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together17,182 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Garlic + sugartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,208 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Clove and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 17,182 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Soup stock
Forms the liquid base that the other ingredients simmer in.
Onion
Softens during simmering and adds savoury depth to the broth.
Garlic
Adds aroma that mellows as it simmers in the broth.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, sugar):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, sugar. 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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