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Congri is a dish of rice cooked with black beans, pork, vegetables, and seasonings.

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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Congri Recipe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beans

  1. Wash the beans in a strainer with running water until the water runs clear. Place them in a large pot with 4 cups of water, 1 tbsp salt, thyme, and half of the green pepper.

  2. Bring to a boil over a strong flame, reduce the flame, and let it boil for 3 hours or until the beans are tender. Add more water if it evaporates. Strain the cooked beans and set the water aside to boil the rice.

Make the sofrito

  1. Remove 1 tbsp of beans and mash them in a mortar until you get a fine paste. In a large pan with oil, fry the pork until it is crispy and has released all the fat.

  2. Remove the pork with a skimmer and drain it on paper towels. Set it aside and fry the garlic in the pan along with the remaining green pepper, the chili, and the onion for 5 minutes while stirring constantly.

  3. Add the mashed beans, the remaining beans, and the pork. Reduce the flame and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes.

Cook the rice and serve

  1. Place all these ingredients in the pot with the bean water and add the rice, 1 1/4 tbsp salt, and black pepper.

  2. Bring everything to a boil, stirring constantly, and let it boil for 20 minutes or until the rice is cooked and the liquid has boiled dry. Adjust the salt. Serve immediately.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

785Calories
42 gProtein
30 gFat
87 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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.

Explore the science

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 + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Beans + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

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

  4. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,608 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Black beans
Provide the main body and creamy texture, and their cooking water flavors the rice.
Rice
Absorbs the bean liquid as it cooks, setting the final texture of the dish.
Pork
Adds fat and savory flavor, with crisped bits contributing browned richness.
Onions
Soften and sweeten as they fry, building the aromatic base.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows during frying.

The step that matters

Boiling the rice in the bean liquid. Stirring constantly and watching the liquid keeps rice from sticking and scorching on the bottom. Cooking until the liquid has boiled dry lets the rice absorb the seasoned liquid evenly, so the texture is set properly.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, thyme, pepper, pork, garlic, onion, rice):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, thyme, pepper, pork, garlic, onion, 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.

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