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Lemony Fried Egg Brown Rice Recipe

I was about to make a boring old brown rice / kale / soy sauce type of thing for dinner-and I was out of tofu but dying for protein-when somehow inspiration struck...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and egg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,090 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

The recipe

1 big serving

Ingredients

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

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By chow. 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 + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Broccoli + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Rice + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,838 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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, egg, broccoli, olive, pepper, lemon):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Dillbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, egg, broccoli, olive, pepper, lemon. 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).