Why it works: Rice and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,063 recipes mention both. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Tomatoes with Chile and Onion
Ingredients
Directions
Put salt, sugar, and sliced chili into the frying pan with the oil over medium-high heat.
Slice the tomatoes and add to the frying pan.
Once fried, serve and add garnish.
Explore the science
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.
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Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,063 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Tomato + carrottop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3,606 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together21,601 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3,065 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Rice + carrottop 7% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2,477 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the carrot
The recipe marks carrot as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, coconut, tomato, sugar, onion):
- Capsicumbetter flavor fit
- Okrabetter flavor fit
- Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
- Carrotthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against rice, coconut, tomato, sugar, onion. 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).
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