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Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup

popular chicken and sweetcorn soup - originally from the southwest of China.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweetcorn and lemon work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 43 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: egg, soy, sesame (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. Sweetcorn + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Ginger + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,154 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, garlic, ginger, sweetcorn, egg, onion, sauce):

  1. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, garlic, ginger, sweetcorn, egg, onion, sauce. 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).