Wild rice + Almond
A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 32 recipes, and they share 206 flavor molecules: the top 2% of all ingredient pairs.
Do wild rice and almond go together?
Yes. 32 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 206 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 2% of every ingredient pair we score.
Why they work
Almost everything wild rice carries, almond has too: 206 of wild rice's 209 flavor molecules also occur in almond. Among the shared key aromas are coumarin (sweet, hay) and 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
What each one brings
wild rice
Much the same character. It carries 3 molecules almond doesn't have.
almond
Much the same character. It carries 75 molecules wild rice doesn't have.
Add a third ingredient
- Cashew nut: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with wild rice, top 1% with almond.
- Quinoa: top 1% of pairs with wild rice, top 1% with almond.
- Chestnut: top 1% of pairs with wild rice, top 1% with almond.
- Butternut squash: top 1% of pairs with wild rice, top 3% with almond.
Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.
Recipes with wild rice and almond
Spread across courses: drinks lead with 1 of the 4 recipes with a course label, then mains (1).
Can you swap one for the other?
Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (99% of wild rice's and 73% of almond's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.
All 206 shared molecules
See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 3 only in wild rice and the 75 only in almond.
Wild rice and almond questions
Do wild rice and almond go together?
A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 32 recipes, and they share 206 flavor molecules: the top 2% of all ingredient pairs.
Why do wild rice and almond taste good together?
Almost everything wild rice carries, almond has too: 206 of wild rice's 209 flavor molecules also occur in almond. Among the shared key aromas are coumarin (sweet, hay) and 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
What goes with wild rice and almond?
Cashew nut is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with wild rice and top 1% with almond. Quinoa and chestnut also fit both.
What can you make with wild rice and almond?
Spread across courses: drinks lead with 1 of the 4 recipes with a course label, then mains (1). Common dishes include Brown 'n' Wild Rice Soup, Kamut and Wild Rice Salad, Wild Rice Chicken Salad, Especially Festive Rice Dressing.
Can I use almond instead of wild rice?
Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (99% of wild rice's and 73% of almond's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.
Compare other ingredients
Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs
Cite this analysis
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Wild Rice vs Almond. https://compkitchen.com/compare/wild-rice-vs-almond. Accessed 2026-11-06.
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title = {Compound similarity analysis: Wild Rice vs Almond},
author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/wild-rice-vs-almond},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}
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Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.