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Zudree Rice

A saffron and curry-flavored rice cooked in veal or chicken broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and saffron work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 629 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Zudree Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Boil rice in broth until nearly tender.

  2. Strain the rice.

  3. Boil saffron in ½ cup broth.

  4. Add the saffron broth to the rice.

Stew and season

  1. Set the rice near the fire.

  2. Let it stew gently until the broth is absorbed.

  3. Season with pepper, coarse sea salt, and curry powder.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Rice + saffrontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Saffron + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

  4. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

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

  5. Rice + vealtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,119 recipes

    Shared aroma: 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
Forms the body of the dish as its starch softens and absorbs the broth.
Broth
Cooks the rice and carries flavor and moisture into every grain.
Saffron
Gives the rice its yellow color and a distinctive aroma.

Swap the saffron

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

  1. Turmericfits about as well
  2. Saffronthe original
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, veal, pepper. 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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