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Cabbage Soup

"This is a different twist on cabbage soup; I think normally it's plain. You can do cabbage soup without the meat and have a nice vegetarian dish as well."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,080 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook5 hr

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Cook the chopped bacon in a large skillet over medium heat for about 8 minutes, until crisp. Drain off most of the fat, leaving the bacon in the pan.

  2. Place the cabbage, Swiss chard, kale, green onions, red bell pepper, carrot slices and celery in a slow cooker. Add the crisp bacon on top.

  3. Crumble the chicken bouillon cubes over the vegetables. Add the dried marjoram, dried parsley and dried sage, then cover everything with water.

  4. Stir gently to combine. Cover and cook on low for 5 hours, until the cabbage and carrots are very tender.

  5. Stir the soup well, then ladle it into bowls and serve hot.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cabbage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,080 recipes

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

  2. Chard + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Pepper + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Pepper + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,555 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

Flavor stand-ins for the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, chard, onion, pepper, carrot, celery, chicken):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, chard, onion, pepper, carrot, celery, chicken. 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).