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Louisiana Rice Salad

A chilled salad of cooked rice, crab meat, water chestnuts, celery, green onions, dressed with yogurt and sour cream.

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Why it works: Water chestnut and tomato work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 34 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine rice, crab meat, water chestnuts, celery and green onion in large mixing bowl.

  2. Blend yogurt, sour cream, salt, red pepper and hot pepper sauce, then add to rice mixture and toss lightly.

Serve

  1. Serve on lettuce leaves.

  2. Garnish with tomatoes.

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Explore the science

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.

  1. Water chestnut + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,375 recipes

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

  3. Crab + meattop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  4. Rice + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Rice + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,139 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked rice
Forms the bulk of the salad and carries the dressing and other ingredients.
Crab meat
Provides the main protein and delicate, sweet flavor.
Water chestnuts
Add a crisp, crunchy texture that stays firm when chilled.
Celery
Adds crunch and fresh, mildly vegetal flavor.
Plain lowfat yogurt
Adds tang and creaminess to the dressing while keeping it light.
Sour cream
Adds richness and body to the dressing.

Flavor stand-ins for the water chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, crab, meat, celery, onion, yogurt, cream):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Grapebetter flavor fit
  4. Water chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, crab, meat, celery, onion, yogurt, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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