Name: Root Vegetable & Ginger Soup
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 onion chopped; Thumb sized piece of grated ginger; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 kg pack frozen vegetable casserole mix (carrots, swede, parsnips, leeks, turnips etc); Few finely chopped rosemary springs; 2 litres vegetable stock; 50 ml milk; Salt and pepper

Why it works: Ginger and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,377 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

1 onion chopped
Thumb sized piece of grated ginger
1 tbsp olive oil
1 kg pack frozen vegetable casserole mix (carrots, swede, parsnips, leeks, turnips etc)
Few finely chopped rosemary springs
2 litres vegetable stock
50 ml milk
Salt and pepper

Directions

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

Ginger + carrottop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,377 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Carrot + parsniptop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,096 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Leek + turniptop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,046 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Parsnip + turniptop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together589 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Carrot + turniptop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together8,001 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the rosemary

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, ginger, olive, carrot, parsnip, leek, turnip):

Celerybetter flavor fit
Thymebetter flavor fit
Parsleybetter flavor fit
Rosemarythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, ginger, olive, carrot, parsnip, leek, turnip. 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).

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