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Brown Rice Salad with Crunchy Sprouts and Seeds

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Brown Rice Salad with Crunchy Sprouts and Seeds

Why it works: Chive and lentils share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Brown Rice Salad with Crunchy Sprouts and Seeds

Makes 8 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

691Calories
22 gProtein
29 gFat
91 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 15 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Mung Beannot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Pepitanot 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 epicurious. 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. Chive + lentilstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mung bean + lentilstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Mung bean + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together49 recipes

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

  4. Chive + mung beantop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lentils + sunflowertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chive, olive, lemon, mung bean, lentils, rice, sunflower):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chive, olive, lemon, mung bean, lentils, rice, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.