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Sour Soup with Green Beans

A sour soup made with green beans, tomatoes, onions, carrots, parsley root, and finished with sour cream.

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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Sour Soup with Green Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Fry the finely chopped vegetables in butter, with the flour.

  2. Add the water, add the cut beans, salt and let boil at low temperature until the beans are tender.

  3. Add the boiled and drained tomatoes and let boil until completely done.

  4. Add chopped parsley and dill.

Serve

  1. Mix some sour cream in it when serving.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

784Calories
34 gProtein
14 gFat
129 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Green beans + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together113 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,606 recipes

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

  4. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Green beans
Provide the main body and tender texture of the soup.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and a tangy flavour that suits the sour character of the soup.
Sour cream or yogurt
Adds tanginess and creaminess when stirred in at serving.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour for frying the vegetables at the start.
Flour
Helps thicken the soup slightly when fried with the vegetables.

The step that matters

Adding the sour cream when serving. Sour cream or yogurt can curdle and separate if it boils. Stirring it in off the heat, or with the soup only warm, keeps it smooth and creamy.

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, carrot, parsley, tomato, butter, flour, cream):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, carrot, parsley, tomato, butter, flour, cream. 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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