Name: Thai Shrimp Fried Rice
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon Light Brown Sugar; 2 Tablespoons Soy Sauce; 1 Tablespoon Fresh Lime Juice; 1 teaspoon Thai Red Curry Paste, Divided; ¼ teaspoons Salt, Divided; 2 Eggs; 1 bunch Small Bunch Green Onions; 2 Tablespoons Plus 1 Teaspoon Canola Oil, Divided; 2-½ cups Cooked And Slightly Cooled Sticky Purple Rice; ¼ cups Thin-Sliced Shallots; 1 pound Cooked, Peeled, De-veined, Tail-Off Shrimp; 2 cups Broccoli Florets; 1 cup Julienne-Cut Red Bell Pepper; 1-½ teaspoon Minced Garlic

Why it works: Lime and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 258 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. 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.

Lime + shallottop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together258 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Onion + shallottop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,431 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Lime + ricetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,014 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,433 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Rice + shallottop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together284 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sauce, lime, egg, canola oil, rice, shallot):

Welsh onionfits better
Mustardfits better
Sweet potatofits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sauce, lime, egg, canola oil, rice, shallot. 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
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
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Thai Shrimp Fried Rice