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Tunisian Soup with Chard and Egg Noodles

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Chard and chickpea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Contains: egg, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Chard + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Cumin + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Cumin + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chard, onion, garlic, olive, tomato, chicken, sauce):

  1. Cuminthe original
  2. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chard, onion, garlic, olive, tomato, chicken, sauce. 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).