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Nutty Wild Rice Salad with Kiwifruit and Red Grapes

"Spectacularly different! Originally submitted to ThanksgivingRecipe.com."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Wild rice and grape work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 53 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Wild rice + grapetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Honey + grapetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together694 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Chicken + wild ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Lemon + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,849 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, wild rice, olive, honey, grape, pecans):

  1. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  2. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, wild rice, olive, honey, grape, pecans. 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).