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Garlic-Chive-Shrimp-fried Rice with Garlic Chips

A fried rice dish with shrimp, garlic chives, and garlic chips.

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Why it works: Garlic and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,149 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Garlic-Chive-Shrimp-fried Rice with Garlic Chips

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium high heat and add the garlic. Fry the garlic slices until golden brown then transfer to a paper towel lined plate.

  2. Fry the shrimp in the garlic flavoured oil until it’s barely cooked (just turns pink) then transfer to a plate.

Fry the rice

  1. Make sure there’s still enough oil left in the pan, then add the cooked rice and fry using a pressing motion (not a cutting motion) with a spatula to break up any clumps. Add the garlic chives, lime leaves, sansho, and pepper and continue to stir-fry until the herbs are fragrant.

  2. Add the shrimp back in and drizzle the fish sauce and mirin evenly over the rice and stir until the liquid has completely evaporated.

Plate and serve

  1. To plate the rice, press some rice into a ramekin or shallow bowl and invert onto a plate. Make an indentation in the middle of the rice with a spoon and break a slow cooked egg into it. Top with the garlic chips and serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

533Calories
36 gProtein
20 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Kaffir Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Leafnot 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. Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Chive + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Clove + limetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together909 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 dish and carries the flavours as it fries.
Shrimp
Provides the main protein; cooked only until just pink so it stays tender.
Slow cooked eggs
Adds richness and a creamy yolk that moistens the rice when broken in.
Fish sauce
Adds savoury depth and salt that seasons the rice as the liquid evaporates.
Garlic
Frying the slices in oil gives a golden, aromatic garlic oil and crisp chips.

The step that matters

Frying the shrimp until just pink. Shrimp keep cooking from residual heat and become rubbery if overcooked, so they should be removed as soon as they turn pink.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, garlic, shrimp, rice, chive, lime, pepper):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, garlic, shrimp, rice, chive, lime, pepper. 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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