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Azteca Soup

"This is a very popular Mexican soup. It can be served with any other Mexican dish. If you can not purchase chipotle chilies in your ethnic section of your grocery store try substituting smoked jalapenos."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Azteca Soup

Why it works: Tomato and avocado are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,385 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Azteca Soup

4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

745Calories
41 gProtein
43 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Chicken100g cooked165
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot 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 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.

  1. Tomato + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Onion + avocadotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,653 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Corn + avocadotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together444 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Corn + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 (corn, chicken, tomato, pepper, sauce, avocado):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, chicken, tomato, pepper, sauce, avocado. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.