Name: Pattaya Fried Rice
Yield: 3
Ingredients: 3 tbsp olive oil (2 tbsp for frying and 1 tbsp for making an omelette); 2 cloves garlic , minced; 2 red chillies , cut in 1 centimeter (0.39 in) dice; 2 shallots , sliced finely; 2 chicken fillets, cut in 1.5 centimeters (0.59 in) pieces; 1 cup (250 g / 8.8 oz ) green peas; 1 carrot , diced; 1 scallion , cut in 1 centimeter (0.39 in) dice; 2 cups (300 g / 11 oz) cooked rice; 2 tbsp tomato sauce; 2 tbsp nam pla (fish sauce); 1 tbsp salt; 1½ tbsp pepper; 1 small jalapeno , minced; 2 eggs for making omelette

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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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.

Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,000 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,873 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,769 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Clove + shallottop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,677 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 absorbs the seasonings and sauces.
Eggs: Form the omelette wrapper that encloses the fried rice.
Chicken fillets: Provide protein and a firm, savoury texture in the rice.
Garlic: Adds aroma and savoury flavour when fried until brown.
Shallots: Add sweetness and depth of flavour when fried until brown.
Tomato sauce: Adds acidity, sweetness and colour to the rice.

The step that matters

Cooking the omelette. The egg must be cooked enough to set and brown on the bottom so it holds the rice when folded, but cooked too long it becomes dry and tears. Flipping gently keeps the wrapper intact.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, shallot, chicken, peas, carrot, rice):

Cuminfits better
Thymefits better
Parsleyfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, shallot, chicken, peas, carrot, 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.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Pattaya Fried Rice