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Rice with Chicken, Mushrooms and Chard

For added flavor, in a small bowl, stir together 2 Tbs. oyster sauce, 1 tsp. Asian sesame oil, 1 Tbs. rice vinegar and 1 tsp. hot water. Drizzle over the rice before serving.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and rice wine work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 187 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: soy, shellfish, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By williamssonoma. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chicken + rice winetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Chicken + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Sesame + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Ginger + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, ginger, oyster, sauce, rice wine, sesame, sugar):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ginger, oyster, sauce, rice wine, sesame, sugar. 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).