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Almond & Picota Cherry Soup

An almond gazpacho, a cold soup, that tastes wonderful with cherries

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,586 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Almond + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Bread + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Olive + minttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Almond + sherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together517 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, almond, garlic, olive, sherry):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, almond, garlic, olive, sherry. 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).