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Corn Chowder Recipe

Corn chowder is the perfect recipe for warm-weather cookouts: a healthy, sweet, and savory soup that showcases the best produce summer has to offer.

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Why it works: Rosemary and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,340 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Corn Chowder Recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

697Calories
19 gProtein
24 gFat
111 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 17 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Soy Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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

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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.

  1. Rosemary + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, carrot, rosemary, thyme, corn, potato):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, carrot, rosemary, thyme, corn, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.