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Easy Spiced Brown Rice with Corn

"An easy-to-prepare rice dish with frozen corn kernels seasoned with cumin and cilantro."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Easy Spiced Brown Rice with Corn

Why it works: Rice and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 933 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Easy Spiced Brown Rice with Corn

6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

411Calories
8 gProtein
16 gFat
63 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Rice + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together933 recipes

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

  2. Olive + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,853 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Corn + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Rice + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Rice + cumintop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together933 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, olive, corn):

  1. Cuminthe original
  2. Turmericfits about as well
  3. Basilfits about as well
  4. Corianderfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, olive, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.