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Peruvian Molded Rice

A layered rice dish with ground beef, tomatoes, raisins, olives, and hard‑boiled eggs, served in a molded cup.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 14 ingredients
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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 ↓

Peruvian Molded Rice

Serves 6
Time20–25 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Sauté the garlic in olive oil, add lemon juice, salt and water, and bring to a boil.

  2. Add the rice and cook until tender, about 20–25 minutes.

Make the filling

  1. In another pan, stir in the onions and sauté.

  2. Add the ground beef, tomatoes, tomato paste, raisins, olives, hard-boiled eggs and parsley.

Shape and serve

  1. Coat an 8-ounce measuring cup with a little oil, fill it halfway with rice, add some meat filling, then add more rice on top.

  2. Invert the cup onto a plate and carefully remove the cup.

  3. Cut the remaining hard-boiled egg in half and serve the halves alongside the arroz tapado on the same plate.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

809Calories
40 gProtein
36 gFat
83 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
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.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Olive + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked rice gives the dish its starchy body and lets it hold a molded shape.
Ground beef
Browned meat gives the filling its savoury, rich flavour.
Hard-boiled eggs
Set egg adds firm texture and body to the filling.
Raisins
Soft sweetness that contrasts with the savoury meat.
Tomatoes
Acidity and moisture that help flavour the filling.

The step that matters

Packing and inverting the cup. The rice must be pressed firmly into the cup so it holds its shape when turned out. Loose rice or filling sitting too close to the top can collapse or spill when the cup is inverted.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, garlic, olive, rice, onion, beef, tomato):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, garlic, olive, rice, onion, beef, tomato. 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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