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Tomato and Bacon Rice

A rice dish cooked with bacon, onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, and coconut.

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Why it works: Rice and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,063 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Tomato and Bacon Rice

Time15 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the base

  1. Cook bacon until crisp in a 10‑inch skillet.

  2. Drain fat and return 2 tablespoons to the skillet.

  3. Add onion and green pepper; cook until tender.

  4. Stir in rice and continue cooking until rice is golden.

Simmer and serve

  1. Add broth and pepper.

  2. Heat to boiling, stir once or twice; arrange tomatoes in broth.

  3. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed.

  4. Fluff rice with a fork.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

885Calories
40 gProtein
46 gFat
77 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Beef100g cooked250
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Green Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6

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.

  1. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  5. Beef + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,448 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon
Renders fat for frying the vegetables and adds savory, smoky flavor.
Uncooked rice
Absorbs the broth and sets into the tender body of the dish.
Beef broth
Supplies the liquid the rice cooks in, carrying the dish's savory flavor.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity that brighten the broth as they cook.

The step that matters

Toasting the rice until golden. Frying the dry rice in fat coats the grains and gives them a nutty, toasted flavor. Cooking it until golden, rather than pale, builds more flavor and helps the grains stay separate as they absorb the broth.

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, pepper, rice, beef, tomato):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, pepper, rice, beef, tomato. 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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