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Carribean Rice&Peas

A delicious recipe with a varity of superb tastes and flavors.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,030 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

  • For the Rice and Peas
  • For the Jerk Chicken
  • for the plantain

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,608 recipes

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

  4. Coconut + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,642 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Butter + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, garlic, coconut, milk, basmati rice, kidney beans):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. Thymethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, garlic, coconut, milk, basmati rice, kidney beans. 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).