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Easy Coconut Rice and Black-Eyed Peas

"Inspired by the Caribbean, this recipe uses coconut milk to add flavor to beans and rice. Add a little zing to a healthy brown rice!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Black-eyed pea and rice work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 40 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

5 servings
Prep5 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Rinse the brown rice in a fine-mesh strainer under cold running water until the water runs mostly clear, then drain well.

  2. Combine the rinsed rice, coconut milk and water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat.

  3. Reduce the heat to low, cover the pan, and simmer for 35 minutes, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender.

  4. Rinse the drained black-eyed peas briefly in a strainer, then gently stir them into the rice.

  5. Cover and cook on low for 5 more minutes to heat the peas through.

  6. Remove the pan from the heat, let it stand covered for 5 minutes, then fluff with a fork and serve warm.

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. Black-eyed pea + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coconut + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Milk + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,354 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  5. Coconut + black-eyed peatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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