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Kale & Couscous Soup with Goat's Cheese

An unusual mix of grains and seasonal veg makes a tasty and filling soup

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Kale & Couscous Soup with Goat's Cheese

Why it works: Kale and pomegranate share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Kale & Couscous Soup with Goat's Cheese

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

838Calories
52 gProtein
34 gFat
87 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Couscous1 cup cooked (157g)176
Chicken100g cooked165
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7

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

By bbcgoodfood. 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.

  1. Kale + pomegranatetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Kale + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pine + pomegranatetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Pine + nutstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the pomegranate

The recipe marks pomegranate as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, chicken, cheese, pine, nuts):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonfits about as well
  4. Pomegranatethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, chicken, cheese, pine, nuts. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.