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Noodles Fob Soup

A soup of chicken, okra, tomatoes, onions, and thin noodles served with boiled rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Okra and tomato work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 327 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Noodles Fob Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the noodles

  1. Combine flour and a pinch of salt.

  2. Make a well in the center and crack the egg into it.

  3. Mix to form a stiff dough.

  4. Roll the dough out as thin as possible.

  5. Fold the rolled dough.

  6. Cut into very fine strips.

Fry the chicken and aromatics

  1. Disjoint the chicken and coat it with flour.

  2. Fry the chicken in hot grease until browned.

  3. Remove the chicken from the pan and place it in a pot of boiling water.

  4. Sauté the onion in the same grease.

  5. Add the sautéed onion to the boiling pot.

Finish and serve

  1. Slice the okra and fry it briefly.

  2. Add the okra and tomatoes to the soup.

  3. Season the soup to taste.

  4. Simmer until the chicken is tender.

  5. Serve the soup with boiled rice.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

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. Okra + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together327 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Okra + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together715 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Okra + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together250 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Tomato + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the stiff dough for the noodles and coats the chicken so it browns.
Egg
Binds the flour into a stiff, workable dough for the noodles.
Chicken
Provides the main protein and rich flavor as it browns and simmers into the broth.
Okra
Thickens the soup and adds a mild, slightly viscous texture.
Tomatoes
Adds acidity and body to the soup.
Onion
Adds sweetness and aromatic depth when sautéed in the frying grease.

The step that matters

Rolling the dough as thin as possible. Thin dough cooks through quickly in the broth and stays tender. Thick dough stays doughy and chewy in the center, so rolling it thinly before cutting matters for the noodles.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, egg, chicken, okra, tomato, rice):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, chicken, okra, tomato, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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