Olive Garden Chicken and Gnocchi Soup

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. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together10,173 recipes

   Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together29,058 recipes

   Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

3. Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together5,873 recipes

   Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

4. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

5. Celery + clovetop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together4,668 recipes

   Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter

Carries the onion and garlic flavor and forms the fat base for the roux.

Flour

Thickens the soup by forming a roux with the butter, giving it body.

Half and half

Adds richness and creaminess to the broth.

Chicken broth

Provides the savory liquid that makes up most of the soup.

Potato gnocchi

Adds starchy substance that soaks up some broth and gives the soup heartiness.

The step that matters

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, flour, celery, garlic, carrot, onion):

1. Parsleyfits better
2. Thymefits better
3. Cuminfits better
4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, flour, celery, garlic, carrot, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.