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Simple Breakfast Soup

A warm soup of chickpeas, broccoli, and vegetables flavored with miso.

By Health Canada · From Canada's Food Guide · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,172 recipes mention both. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 3

Ingredients

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

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Heat oil in a pot over medium heat.

  2. Add onion, garlic, celery, and carrot; cook for 6 to 8 minutes or until carrots are tender.

  3. Add broccoli and chickpeas; cook for 2 more minutes.

  4. Add water and bring to a boil.

  5. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender.

  6. Remove from heat.

Finish and serve

  1. Whisk miso and cold water together in a small bowl.

  2. Stir the miso mixture into the soup.

  3. Let the soup cool slightly before serving.

  4. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

By Health Canada. Recipe from Canada's Food Guide.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + broccolitop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Add body and natural sweetness as they soften during simmering.
Chickpeas
Contribute starch and protein, giving the soup a creamy, hearty body.
Broccoli
Adds bulk, fresh vegetal flavor, and texture to the soup.
White miso
Adds savory depth and umami, with salty, fermented flavor.

The step that matters

Stirring the miso mixture into the soup. Miso is best whisked into a little cold water first so it dissolves smoothly without clumping. Boiling miso can dull its delicate flavor, so add it after removing the pot from heat or at low heat.

Flavor stand-ins for the chickpea

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, garlic, celery, carrot, broccoli, miso):

  1. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeathe original
  4. Peanutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, garlic, celery, carrot, broccoli, miso. 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).

“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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