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Pennsylvania Dutch Chicken-Corn Soup with Lovage Recipe

Corn gives a sweet heartiness to this soup.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Pennsylvania Dutch Chicken-Corn Soup with Lovage Recipe

About 2 quarts

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

415Calories
43 gProtein
11 gFat
40 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Lovagenot in our table0
Saffronnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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.

  1. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Celery + lovagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Carrot + lovagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  5. Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, clove, carrot, celery, lovage, lemon, corn):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, clove, carrot, celery, lovage, lemon, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.