Name: Nasi Goreng Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 2.5 Groundnut oil; tbsp Onion, finely sliced; 1 Red pepper, halved and sliced; 1 Tenderstem broccoli, halved horizontally; 200 Cloves garlic, finely chopped; g or 2 Red chillis, halved, deseeded and cut into slivers (depending on strength); 3 Cooked chicken, cut into chunks; 1 Cooked rice; 350 Spring onions, cut on the diagonal; g Eggs, beaten; 550 Cooked, shelled prawns; g Dark soy sauce; 4 Soft light brown sugar; 4 Salt and pepper; 100 Lime wedges to serve; g 4 inch piece of cucumber, halved, seeds removed and cut into little cubes; 4 Juiced lime; tbsp Unsalted peanuts, coarsely chopped; 2 Coriander, coarsely chopped

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. 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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Broccoli + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,072 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,294 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, pepper, broccoli, garlic, chicken, rice, egg):

Turmericfits better
Parsleyfits better
Cuminfits better
Clovethe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Peanut	1 oz (28g)	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Coriander	not in our table	0

Nasi Goreng Recipe