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Gin Fried Rice

A fried rice dish flavored with gin, soy sauce, and spices, topped with scrambled eggs and shredded chicken.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and gin work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

  1. Melt butter in a large straight-sided sauté pan.

  2. Add all ingredients except gin to pan. Cook until all ingredients are heated through.

  3. Add gin and carefully ignite off the heat.

  4. Place pan back on heat and cook until you don't smell alcohol any more.

  5. Serve warm.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pepper + gintop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Rice + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Pepper + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  5. Rice + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,100 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

Day-old cooked white rice
Dry, firm grains fry separately instead of turning mushy and steaming in the pan.
Eggs
Set when scrambled and cooked, adding soft pieces of protein and richness throughout the rice.
Cooked chicken
Adds savory protein and bulk; it only needs heating through since it is already cooked.
Butter
Provides fat for frying and adds a rich, toasty flavor to the rice.
Gin
Alcohol that is flamed off, leaving aromatic flavor behind once the alcohol smell is gone.
Soy sauce
Adds salty, savory depth and helps color the rice as it fries.

The step that matters

Cook off the alcohol after adding gin. Flaming the gin burns off some alcohol, but the pan must return to heat until the alcohol smell fades, or the dish tastes harsh and boozy.

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, pepper, egg, sauce, gin, chicken, butter):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, pepper, egg, sauce, gin, chicken, butter. 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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