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Rice with Coconut

A coconut-flavored rice dish cooked with water, salt, sugar, and raisins.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,063 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Rice with Coconut

4 cups

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine everything in a pot.

  2. Cover, bring to a simmer, and reduce to very low heat.

  3. Cook until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender.

  4. Serve with a half of avocado and grilled meats of all varieties.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

547Calories
7 gProtein
25 gFat
77 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut Milk1/2 cup (120ml) canned230
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
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. Coconut + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rice + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Coconut + raisintop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Coconut + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,742 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the bulk of the dish and turns tender as it absorbs the cooking liquid.
Coconut milk
Adds richness and a creamy, fragrant flavour to the cooked grains.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the salt and coconut flavour.

The step that matters

Cook until the liquid is absorbed. Keeping the heat very low lets the rice absorb the liquid gently and cook through evenly. Too much heat can scorch the bottom of the pot before the grains are tender.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, rice, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, rice, sugar. 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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