Name: Angela's Oriental Chicken Noodle Soup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 3 cups water; 1 (3 ounce) package chicken flavored ramen noodles; 2 cups chopped cooked chicken breast; 2 leaves bok choy, sliced; 1 carrot, sliced; 1 teaspoon sesame oil

Why it works: Carrot and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 641 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Angela's Oriental Chicken Noodle Soup

4 servings

Prep15 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

3 cups water
1 (3 ounce) package chicken flavored ramen noodles
2 cups chopped cooked chicken breast
2 leaves bok choy, sliced
1 carrot, sliced
1 teaspoon sesame oil

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

319Calories

33 gProtein

17 gFat

8 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Sesame	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Bok Choy	1 cup (70g)	9
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 allrecipes. 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.

Carrot + sesametop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together641 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Chicken + sesametop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together939 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Chicken + carrottop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,338 recipes

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

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sesame):

Welsh onionfits better
Spinachfits better
Capsicumfits better
Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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