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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

  1. Put salt, sugar, and sliced chili into the frying pan with the oil over medium-high heat.

  2. Slice the tomatoes and add to the frying pan.

  3. Once fried, serve and add garnish.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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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 + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Tomato + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Rice + carrottop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned 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):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Okrabetter flavor fit
  3. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  4. 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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