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Chilled Soup of Carrots, Pink Grapefruit, Green Olives and Hazelnuts

This unusual chilled soup will certainly get people talking at your summer dinner party.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep1 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Carrot + hazelnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Rosemary + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, butter, thyme, rosemary, pepper, milk, grapefruit):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  3. Sagebetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, butter, thyme, rosemary, pepper, milk, grapefruit. 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).