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Corn Soup with Harissa Yogurt

A simple corn soup topped with an electric harissa-yogurt swirl + photos from a walk around North Beach on the Fourth of July.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Yogurt and harissa work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 49 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By 101cookbooks. 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. Yogurt + harissatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Corn + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Potato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Olive + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, olive, butter, potato, garlic, pepper, yogurt):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Onionbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, olive, butter, potato, garlic, pepper, yogurt. 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).