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Pork and Wild Rice Casserole

"This recipe is a delicious use of wild rice. Just be sure to season your ground pork if you don't buy it preseasoned (usually labeled as pork sausage). Fresh Italian sausage can also be used, just cut open the casing. Works great prepared a day ahead and re-heated for 20 minutes at serving time."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Pork and Wild Rice Casserole

Why it works: Wild rice and flour share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 61 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Pork and Wild Rice Casserole

12 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1153Calories
57 gProtein
37 gFat
148 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 17 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Soupnot in our table0
Pimentonot 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. Wild rice + flourtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Wild rice + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Pork + mushroomtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wild rice, pork, butter, onion, flour, cream, mushroom):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Turmericfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wild rice, pork, butter, onion, flour, cream, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.