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Mexican Supper Pot

Help your kids learn to cook, with this simple one pot tasty meal - serve with tortilla chips for a hands-on meal

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Mexican Supper Pot

Why it works: Sunflower and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 263 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mexican Supper Pot

Easily halved

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1104Calories
74 gProtein
49 gFat
90 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Chicken100g cooked165
Tortilla Chip1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1

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. Sunflower + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together256 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Tomato + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

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

  4. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, onion, pork, tomato, rice):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, onion, pork, tomato, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.