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Home-Style Brown Rice Pilaf

"This is comfort food at its best with mild flavors and it's simple to make. This is a very versatile dish: if you prefer, you can use almonds in place of the cashews, and cilantro in place of the parsley."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,351 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Rice + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,351 recipes

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

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Garlic + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Onion + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21,599 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chickpea

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, butter, onion, garlic, carrot, mushroom, egg):

  1. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  2. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  3. Beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Chickpeathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, butter, onion, garlic, carrot, mushroom, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).