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Apple Rice with Sausage

A savory rice dish cooked with apple juice, sausage, onions, celery, and tart cherries.

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Why it works: Onion and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,518 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Apple Rice with Sausage

Time15 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Combine rice, apple juice, and salt in a 3- to 4-quart saucepan.

  2. Heat to boiling.

  3. Stir once or twice, reduce heat, cover, and cook 15 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed.

Prepare the sausage and vegetables

  1. Cook sausage until done in a medium skillet.

  2. Remove sausage and pour off fat.

  3. Return 2 tablespoons of drippings to the skillet.

  4. Add chopped onion and diced celery and cook until tender crisp.

Combine and finish

  1. Stir into cooked rice.

  2. Add sausage and tart cherries and cook 5 minutes longer.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

680Calories
35 gProtein
15 gFat
103 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Apple Juice1 medium (182g)95
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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.

  1. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Rice + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  4. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Rice + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Uncooked rice
Forms the bulk of the dish and absorbs the apple juice as it cooks, becoming tender.
Apple juice
Provides the cooking liquid, so the rice takes on its sweet, fruity flavor.
Bulk pork sausage
Adds savory, browned meat flavor and richness from its fat.
Tart cherries
Add bright acidity and fruitiness that balances the sweetness of the apple juice.
Chopped onion
Adds savory depth and aroma once softened in the sausage drippings.

The step that matters

Cover and cook the rice without lifting the lid. Once the lid is on and heat is reduced, steam cooks the rice evenly. Lifting the lid lets steam escape, which can leave grains unevenly cooked or the liquid absorbed unevenly.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, pork, onion, celery):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, pork, onion, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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