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Lemony Mushroom & Herb Rice

Perk up your rice with Sara Buenfeld’s tasty recipe that's brimming with Mediterranean flavours

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Lemony Mushroom & Herb Rice

Why it works: Chestnut and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Lemony Mushroom & Herb Rice

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

358Calories
7 gProtein
14 gFat
52 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Chestnutnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chestnut + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, chestnut, mushroom, olive, garlic, parsley, chive):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, chestnut, mushroom, olive, garlic, parsley, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.