Skip to main content

Pine Nut Rice Soup

"A traditional Korean recipe. Since it is a very elegant, flavorful recipe, it is said that only high class was able to enjoy this in the olden days. Our family enjoys this soup for a meal - especially for a breakfast with pickle and salad."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Pine Nut Rice Soup

Why it works: Pine and rice work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 156 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Pine Nut Rice Soup

6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

512Calories
9 gProtein
20 gFat
79 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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.

Explore the science

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. Pine + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Nuts + datestop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together178 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Nuts + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together100 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pine + nutstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Pine + datestop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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 (pine, nuts, rice, sugar):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, nuts, rice, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.