Name: Croquettes De Riz
Ingredients: rice; eggs; sugar; bread crumbs

Why it works: Rice and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,259 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Croquettes De Riz

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

rice
eggs
sugar
bread crumbs

Directions

Wash and prepare the rice as in the previous recipe.
Roll the rice into balls.
Dip the balls into beaten eggs mixed with sugar.
Shake bread crumbs over the balls.
Baste the balls again and shake more crumbs over them.
Fry the croquettes until golden brown.

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.

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.

Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,259 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,744 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,350 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).