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Indonesian Stir-fried Rice

Fragrant fried rice with ginger, chillies, macadamias, lemongrass, nutmeg and lime. Add turkey, chicken or prawns to suit your taste and use up whatever leftovers you have.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 38 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,324 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Nutmeg + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Sesame + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Ginger + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Sesame + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,999 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Garlic + shrimptop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,546 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (nutmeg, sesame, shallot, ginger, garlic, shrimp, sugar):

  1. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against nutmeg, sesame, shallot, ginger, garlic, shrimp, 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).