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Almond & Cinnamon Rice

A delicately flavoured rice, perfect with fish. Recipe from Raymond Blanc

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,514 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Almond + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lemon + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Olive + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,641 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Olive + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Thyme + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, wild rice, lemon, thyme, almond, cinnamon):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, wild rice, lemon, thyme, almond, cinnamon. 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).