Name: Spicy Garlicky Garbanzo Bean Soup Recipe
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 cans garbanzo beans rinsed; 2 to 3 cans good quality chicken stock or 4 cups homemade; 2 Serrano chilies chopped or less if your prefer less heat; 3 large garlic cloves sliced; 1 stalk of celery chopped fine; 1 Tablespoon Cumin; 1 Tablespoon Herbs De Provence; 1 Tablespoon Onion Salt; 1 Tablespoon White Pepper; 1 T Lemon Juice or hit it lightly; 2 T Crunchy Bacon; 3 T Heavy Whipping Cream; 2 T Cream Sherry or to your taste; 1/2 small white onion finely minced

Why it works: Beans and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,188 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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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.

Beans + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,188 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,306 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Celery + cumintop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together439 recipes

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

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, chicken, garlic, clove, celery, cumin, onion):

Turmericfits better
Oreganofits better
Thymefits better
White pepperthe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Bean	not in our table	0

Spicy Garlicky Garbanzo Bean Soup Recipe