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Mushroom and Pancetta Soup Recipe

(this is not a hack. i'm just removing the cruft from the original recipe. there should be an option to not publish these.)"japanese" mushroom pancetta soup...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and sake share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 35 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

Contains: sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mushroom + saketop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Shiitake + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Shiitake + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Spinach + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Spinach + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shiitake, mushroom, sake, sesame, garlic, sauce):

  1. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  2. Onionabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shiitake, mushroom, sake, sesame, garlic, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).