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Pineapple Fried Rice

A stir‑fried rice dish with pineapple, eggs, and vegetables.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 299 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Time2 minutes

Ingredients

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

Directions

  1. Heat the oil in a non‑stick skillet. Add the garlic, red onion, and red chilli, then stir‑fry for 2 minutes.

  2. Add the egg, then the rice, bok choy, and diced pineapple.

  3. Season with pepper and salt, and serve hot.

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. Rice + pineappletop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together299 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Sunflower + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  5. Onion + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Hot rice
Forms the bulk of the dish and absorbs the oil and seasoning as it fries.
Eggs
Set as they cook, adding softness and richness that bind the rice together.
Pineapple flesh
Adds sweetness and acidity that balance the savoury seasoning.
Red onion
Softens and sweetens during stir-frying, building flavour in the oil.

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, onion, egg, rice, pineapple, pepper):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, onion, egg, rice, pineapple, pepper. 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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