Name: Curried Ham and Eggs on Rice Mounds
Ingredients: 1 10-3/4-ounce can condensed cheese soup; 1 tablespoon chili sauce; 1 4-ounce can sliced mushrooms, drained; 1 cup diced cooked ham; 1 teaspoon curry powder; 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt; 4 hard-cooked eggs, cut into quarters; 3 cups hot cooked rice

Why it works: Mushroom and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,700 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Curried Ham and Eggs on Rice Mounds

Ingredients

1 10-3/4-ounce can condensed cheese soup
1 tablespoon chili sauce
1 4-ounce can sliced mushrooms, drained
1 cup diced cooked ham
1 teaspoon curry powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
4 hard-cooked eggs, cut into quarters
3 cups hot cooked rice

Directions

Make the sauce

Combine cheese soup, chili sauce, mushrooms, ham, curry and salt.
Heat thoroughly.

Serve

Fold in eggs.
Serve over fluffy rice.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

671Calories

47 gProtein

30 gFat

51 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Mushrooms	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soup	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	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.

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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.

Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,700 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Mushroom + ricetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,515 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Cheese + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,015 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Garlic + ricetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,358 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Cheese + ricetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together942 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Condensed cheese soup: Forms the creamy base of the sauce and carries the other flavours.
Hard-cooked eggs: Add body and a soft, rich texture to the sauce.
Cooked rice: Soaks up the sauce and gives a neutral base for the dish.
Cooked ham: Adds savoury, meaty flavour and chewy bite.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, sauce, mushroom, ham, egg, rice):

Capersfits better
Thymefits about as well
Nutmegfits about as well
Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, sauce, mushroom, ham, egg, rice. 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.