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Chilled Minty Coconut Melon Soup

"Chilled coconut milk and honeydew with an infusion of mint and melon liqueur make a delightful start to a meal. Served in a chilled, small soup cup and garnished with a sprig of peppermint. Every time it gets wows!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Melon and coconut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-undecalactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Cut the honeydew melon in half, scoop out and discard the seeds, then cut the flesh away from the rind and chop it into rough chunks.

  2. Pick the mint leaves from the stems and set aside a small handful of nice leaves for garnish.

  3. Place the melon chunks, coconut milk, melon liqueur and the remaining mint leaves in a blender.

  4. Blend on high until completely smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides as needed.

  5. Taste the soup and blend again briefly if the mint flavor needs to be stronger or the texture is grainy.

  6. Pour the soup into a covered container and refrigerate for at least 2 hours until thoroughly chilled.

  7. Stir the soup well, ladle into bowls or cups, and garnish each serving with the reserved mint leaves.

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. Melon + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-undecalactone (coconut, creamy).

  2. Melon + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Coconut + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,642 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Melon + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Coconut + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

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