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Healthy Fried Rice

This is a recipe I use when I'm really busy and need something to freshen me up! I use Tesco "value" frozen vegetable pack and that's the best and easiest way.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,354 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

  • *Frozen vegetables may include

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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 + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,354 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Rice + meattop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,471 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  4. Rice + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,100 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Rice + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,587 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

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