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Czech Mushroom Soup

A creamy soup of potatoes, mushrooms, and sour cream, seasoned with salt, caraway, dill, and pepper.

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Why it works: Caraway and dill share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Czech Mushroom Soup

Time15 minutes, then 10 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup base

  1. Combine water, salt, and caraway seed in a large saucepan.

  2. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  3. Add the potatoes.

  4. Boil, covered, for 15 minutes.

  5. Meanwhile, stir flour into sour cream.

  6. Stir the flour mixture into the potato mixture.

  7. Add the mushrooms.

  8. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

Finish and thicken

  1. Remove from heat.

  2. Add dill and pepper, and mix gently.

  3. Measure about ½ cup of soup and set aside.

  4. Whisk the eggs in a bowl.

  5. Whisk the reserved soup into the eggs.

  6. Pour the egg-soup mixture into the saucepan of soup.

  7. Heat thoroughly.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

819Calories
43 gProtein
8 gFat
143 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Caraway Seednot 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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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. Caraway + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Potato + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together423 recipes

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

  3. Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

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

  4. Caraway + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 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

Potatoes
Soften and add body, thickening the soup as they break down slightly.
All-purpose flour
Stabilizes the sour cream and thickens the soup so it stays smooth.
Sour cream
Adds richness and tangy acidity, giving the soup its creamy body.
Mushrooms
Provide earthy flavor and a tender, meaty texture to the soup.
Eggs
Enrich and thicken the soup when tempered and gently heated into it.

The step that matters

Pour the egg-soup mixture into the saucepan of soup. Eggs can curdle if they meet hot liquid directly. Tempering them with a little hot soup first and heating gently keeps the soup smooth and silky.

Swap the caraway

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, flour, cream, mushroom, dill, pepper, egg):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Carawaythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, flour, cream, mushroom, dill, pepper, egg. 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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