Why it works: Wild rice and rice work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 79 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
The recipe
15 - 1/2 cup servingsIngredients
Contains: milk, 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.
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Wild rice + ricetop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together79 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Mushroom + beeftop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3,231 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
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Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together12,516 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
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Onion + beeftop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together17,091 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Rice + almondtop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,437 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the almond
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, wild rice, rice, onion, mushroom, beef):
- Sesamebetter flavor fit
- Beansbetter flavor fit
- Peanutbetter flavor fit
- Almondthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against butter, wild rice, rice, onion, mushroom, beef. 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).
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