Name: Pepper Rice and Confetti Beef
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups chicken broth; 1 1/2 cups uncooked white rice; 1/2 pound beef sirloin, thinly sliced; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 1/2 red bell pepper, thinly sliced; 1/2 yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced; 1/2 green bell pepper, thinly sliced; salt and pepper to taste; 1/2 cup chopped green onion; 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard; 2 tablespoons honey

Why it works: Chicken and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,148 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

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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.

Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,148 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,769 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,259 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,092 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,814 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, rice, beef, pepper, onion, honey):

Capsicumfits better
Potatofits better
Tomatofits better
Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, beef, pepper, onion, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Green Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Pepper Rice and Confetti Beef