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Calico Bean Soup

"This is a great soup recipe for a cold winter day! Warms you inside and out. It is very hearty. If you love beans as much as I do you will definitely love this recipe. It is my husband's recipe. He makes about 10 prepared packages and presents them in decorative jars as gifts for Christmas."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Calico Bean Soup

Why it works: Lima beans and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 156 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Calico Bean Soup

10 servings
Prep20 min
Cook3 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

898Calories
88 gProtein
20 gFat
92 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Pinto Bean1/2 cup (86g) canned122
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Lima Beans1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Beannot in our table0
Soupnot in our table0
Waternot 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. Lima beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Lima beans + kidney beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Beans + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,188 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Cumin + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lima beans, beans, kidney beans, onion, chicken, cumin, garlic):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Black-eyed peafits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lima beans, beans, kidney beans, onion, chicken, cumin, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.