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Wild Rice Pilaf with Dried Cranberries and Pecans

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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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 ↓

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Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Wild rice + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  3. Shallot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Chicken + wild ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Butter + pecanstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,408 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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, butter, shallot, wild rice, rice, thyme, pecans):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, shallot, wild rice, rice, thyme, pecans. 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).