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Watercress & Mint Soup with Goat's Cheese Crostini

A fresh spring soup that makes an ideal light lunch or starter to your weekend lunch

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Watercress and cheese work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

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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.

  1. Watercress + cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together85 recipes

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

  2. Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Potato + watercresstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Potato + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

The recipe marks orange as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, potato, watercress, mint, olive, cheese):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, potato, watercress, mint, olive, cheese. 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).