Name: Easy Chicken and Chive-Dumpling Soup Recipe
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 medium yellow onion, small dice; 2 medium celery stalks, small dice; 6 medium garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 8 cups low-sodium chicken broth; 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into bite-size pieces; 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1/3 cup fresh chives, thinly sliced; 1 tablespoon kosher salt; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 cup milk (1%, 2% or whole); 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled; 2 medium carrots, thinly sliced; 1/2 large head savoy cabbage, large dice (about 6 cups)

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 ↓

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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).
Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,149 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,907 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Celery + clovetop 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 (olive, onion, celery, garlic, chicken, flour, chive):

Capersfits better
Cuminfits better
Thymefits better
Clovethe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Savoy Cabbage	1 cup shredded (89g)	22
Celery Stalks	1 stalk (40g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Chives	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Easy Chicken and Chive-Dumpling Soup Recipe