Name: After the Binge Quick and Dirty Onion Soup Recipe
Yield: 4 bowls
Ingredients: 1/2 onions; butter, cooking oil, olive oil - just enough to brown the onions; any kind of soup stock with salt to taste, or bullion cube of any variety - beef is best, but chicken or vegetable will work.; garlic, clove, powdered, whatever you have - 1tbl spoon; black pepper - 1 teaspoon; Celery with leaf, carrots, peppers anything left in the fridge - chopped - 1/2 to 1 cup; any wine you have leftover from last nights binge - up to a cup

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

After the Binge Quick and Dirty Onion Soup Recipe

4 bowls

Ingredients

1/2 onions
butter, cooking oil, olive oil - just enough to brown the onions
any kind of soup stock with salt to taste, or bullion cube of any variety - beef is best, but chicken or vegetable will work.
garlic, clove, powdered, whatever you have - 1tbl spoon
black pepper - 1 teaspoon
Celery with leaf, carrots, peppers anything left in the fridge - chopped - 1/2 to 1 cup
any wine you have leftover from last nights binge - up to a cup

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

879Calories

60 gProtein

58 gFat

23 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soup	not in our table	0
Leaf	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16,012 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Clove + celerytop 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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, butter, olive, beef, garlic, pepper, celery):

Parsleyfits better
Thymefits better
Rosemaryfits better
Clovethe original

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

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