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LA Pa Congee

"Congee is rice cooked with large amounts of water or chicken stock. It is good for convalescents, as it is meant for a tired stomach. The Chinese eat congee for breakfast and supper. It be accompanied by eggs, salted peanuts, fish, or ham. This was a traditional congee in our family. We prepared this congee with eight ingredients: red dates, fresh water chestnuts, soybeans, bok choy, fresh chestnuts, ham, or chicken. This is the congee my family has served for more than one hundred years. It is highly nourishing!"

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LA Pa Congee

Why it works: Chestnut and water chestnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

LA Pa Congee

8 servings
Prep45 min
Cook1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

580Calories
39 gProtein
18 gFat
67 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Bok Choy1 cup (70g)9
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soybeannot in our table0
Chestnutnot in our table0
Waternot 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. Chestnut + water chestnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Rice + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

  4. Soybean + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Chestnut + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, soybean, chestnut, rice, water chestnut, chicken):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, soybean, chestnut, rice, water chestnut, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.