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Red Rice Salad

"This hearty salad is made with red rice, originally from France. It has an earthy flavor, which goes well with the other robust ingredients."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Red Rice Salad

Why it works: Radish and horseradish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 38 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Red Rice Salad

8 servings
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

609Calories
16 gProtein
15 gFat
104 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Red Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Horseradishnot 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. Radish + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chive + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Radish + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Onion + horseradishtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, red rice, pepper, onion, radish, chive, horseradish):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, red rice, pepper, onion, radish, chive, horseradish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.