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Celeriac Soup Recipe

Ingredients for this soup can be found commonly in the hills of Emilia-Romagna where celery, mushrooms and truffles thrive and pork is king. There it would be...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,779 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Celeriac Soup Recipe

4 Servings

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By chow. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,814 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Onion + white peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Olive + white peppertop 30% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together586 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, chicken, olive):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, chicken, olive. 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).