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Simple Coconut & Bean Soup

This vegetarian meal in a bowl shows how something delicious can be made from mostly storecupboard ingredients

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Simple Coconut & Bean Soup

Why it works: Clove and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,874 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Simple Coconut & Bean Soup

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

661Calories
22 gProtein
30 gFat
86 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 16 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Pinto Bean1/2 cup (86g) canned122
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Scotchnot in our table0
Beannot 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.

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. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Thyme + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,077 recipes

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

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  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 plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, onion, pepper, garlic, clove, thyme, allspice):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, onion, pepper, garlic, clove, thyme, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.