Name: Oz Family Stir-Fried Rice
Yield: Serves 8 to 12
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons organic coconut oil, softened; 1 pound medium shrimp, cleaned and deveined, or one 8-ounce package tempeh; 1 medium yellow onion, chopped; 6 garlic cloves, peeled and minced; 1 tablespoon minced fresh peeled ginger; 1 cup sliced shiitake mushrooms (3 ounces); 1/3 cup low-sodium soy sauce or tamari; 2 tablespoons sriracha chile sauce; 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil (optional); 1 cup snow peas; 2 cups chiffonade-cut kale (long strips); 1 large carrot, peeled and shredded; 4 cups cooked short-grain brown rice (day old is best); 3 eggs; 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar; 2 tablespoons mirin; 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup; Sea salt and fresh-cracked black pepper; 2 scallions (white and light green parts), sliced thin; 4 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds

Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. 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.

Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,038 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Garlic + shiitaketop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together292 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Onion + shiitaketop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together412 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Shiitake + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together552 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, onion, garlic, clove, ginger, shiitake, mushroom):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Coconutthe original
Lemonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, onion, garlic, clove, ginger, shiitake, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Tempeh	100g	160
Sesame	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Maple Syrup	1 tbsp (20ml)	52
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Shiitake	1/2 cup (73g)	34
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Sriracha	1 tsp (5g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Toasted Sesame Seed	not in our table	0

Oz Family Stir-Fried Rice