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Velvet Corn Soup with Crab Meat

A creamy corn soup flavored with crab meat, ginger, and sherry, finished with beaten eggs.

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Why it works: Crab and meat work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 448 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Velvet Corn Soup with Crab Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the crab

  1. Marinate crab meat in ginger, sherry, and cornstarch.

Make the soup

  1. Heat chicken stock.

  2. Add the corn to the stock.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  4. Add the crab meat mixture.

  5. Bring the soup to a boil again.

  6. Turn the heat down.

Finish and serve

  1. Gently stir in the egg yolks.

  2. Fold in the egg whites.

  3. Garnish with chopped parsley.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

958Calories
78 gProtein
17 gFat
116 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
Chicken100g cooked165
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot 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. Crab + meattop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Crab + creamtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together317 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

  3. Ginger + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,666 recipes

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

  5. Ginger + chickentop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Crab meat
Provides the main seafood flavour and tender bite in the soup.
Eggs
Yolks enrich and thicken the broth, while whites are folded in to make the soup light and fluffy.
Cornstarch
Thickens the crab mixture and helps the soup take on a silky body.
Sweet corn cream style
Adds sweetness and body, thickening the broth as it cooks.
Chicken broth
Forms the liquid base that carries all the other flavours.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Stiffly beaten whites hold air only if they are folded gently and the soup is not kept at a hard boil. Vigorous stirring deflates them, and the soup loses its light, feathery texture.

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (crab, meat, sherry, chicken, corn, cream, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against crab, meat, sherry, chicken, corn, cream, 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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