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Stir-fried Rice with Cabbage & Bacon

This Chinese-style rice dish makes a great side for chicken or duck

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Stir-fried Rice with Cabbage & Bacon

Why it works: Cabbage and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,001 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stir-fried Rice with Cabbage & Bacon

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

315Calories
10 gProtein
4 gFat
60 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Savoy Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together989 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + cabbagetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Sunflower + basmati ricetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Onion + basmati ricetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together676 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

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