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Super Natural Rice

A baked rice dish with walnuts, sunflower kernels, parsley, bouillon, butter, eggs, cottage cheese, and cheddar cheese.

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Why it works: Walnut and sunflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 129 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Super Natural Rice

Time15 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine water, rice, walnuts, sunflower kernels, parsley, bouillon and butter in a 2- to 3-quart saucepan.

  2. Bring to a boil and stir once or twice.

  3. Lower heat to simmer.

  4. Cover and cook 15 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.

  5. Fluff with fork.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1064Calories
76 gProtein
58 gFat
58 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Chicken100g cooked165
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Waternot in our table0

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. Walnut + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together129 recipes

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

  2. Rice + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

  3. Rice + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

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

  4. Sunflower + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together256 recipes

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

  5. Walnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together865 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that absorbs the cooking liquid and forms the body of the dish.
Walnuts
Add crunch and a toasted, nutty flavor.
Butter
Adds richness and a rounder mouthfeel to the cooked rice.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, walnut, sunflower, chicken, butter, egg, cottage cheese):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Dillfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, walnut, sunflower, chicken, butter, egg, cottage cheese. 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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