Name: Fresh Corn with Wild Rice
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 2 cups Cooked Wild Rice (cooked In The Below 4 Cups Chicken Broth); 4 cups Chicken Broth; 3 cups (to 4 Cups) Fresh Corn Kernels (scraped Off The Cob); 1 cup Heavy Cream; 6 Tablespoons Butter; 2 whole Eggs, Beaten; 1 teaspoon (to 2 Teaspoons) Kosher Salt (or Table Salt To Taste); Cayenne Pepper To Taste; 1/2 cup (to 1 Cup) Milk, For Thinning

Why it works: Wild rice and corn work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 19 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Prep25 min

Cook45 min

Ingredients

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

2 cups Cooked Wild Rice (cooked In The Below 4 Cups Chicken Broth)
4 cups Chicken Broth
3 cups (to 4 Cups) Fresh Corn Kernels (scraped Off The Cob)
1 cup Heavy Cream
6 Tablespoons Butter
2 whole Eggs, Beaten
1 teaspoon (to 2 Teaspoons) Kosher Salt (or Table Salt To Taste)
Cayenne Pepper To Taste
1/2 cup (to 1 Cup) Milk, For Thinning

Directions

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By thepioneerwoman. 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.

Wild rice + corntop 7% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together19 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together81,222 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together41,494 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Wild rice + chickentop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together175 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
Corn + milktop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together6,953 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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