Name: Celery and Garlic Boursin Soup
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 80g Boursin Garlic & Fine Herb cream cheese; 1 large red onion, chopped roughly; 2 large garlic cloves, chopped roughly; 1 large leek, chopped into 2 inch pieces; 70g buter; 1 veg or chicken stock cube diluted with 500 ml water; 6 to 8 sticks of celery chopped roughly; salt and pepper to taste; 50 ml of milk

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Celery and Garlic Boursin Soup

Serves 2

Ingredients

80g Boursin Garlic & Fine Herb cream cheese
1 large red onion, chopped roughly
2 large garlic cloves, chopped roughly
1 large leek, chopped into 2 inch pieces
70g buter
1 veg or chicken stock cube diluted with 500 ml water
6 to 8 sticks of celery chopped roughly
salt and pepper to taste
50 ml of milk

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

473Calories

43 gProtein

22 gFat

27 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

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.

Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Leek + celerytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,093 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Onion + leektop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,326 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).
Garlic + leektop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together150 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, cream cheese, onion, leek, chicken, celery, pepper):

Thymefits better
Parsleyfits better
Tarragonfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, cream cheese, onion, leek, chicken, celery, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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