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Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup

A very tasty and simple authentic soup recipe ideal as a starter or quick snack.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and sweetcorn work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 111 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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.

  1. Chicken + sweetcorntop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together111 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together939 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Sesame + sweetcorntop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. White pepper + eggtop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,278 recipes

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

  5. Sweetcorn + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together87 recipes

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

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 (chicken, sesame, sweetcorn, egg):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sesame, sweetcorn, egg. 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).