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Mushroom Rice Stuffing

Make Christmas veggie-friendly with this recipe for vegetarian stuffing

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Mushroom Rice Stuffing

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Mushroom Rice Stuffing

Makes 12
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

793Calories
28 gProtein
46 gFat
64 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Porcininot 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pine + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Olive + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, olive, onion, pine, garlic, clove, rice):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Nutsthe original

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