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Braised Rice with Broccoli

From the Campbell's Capsule Cupboard (http://www.campbellsoup.co.uk/capsule-cupboard) - this dish has a light Caribbean touch and is classically served with grilled chicken. It can also be enjoyed with tuna, which can be stirred in just before the rice is ready, to the warm the fish through.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and broccoli match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,292 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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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 + broccolitop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Chicken + basmati ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together289 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + broccolitop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,747 recipes

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

  5. Kidney beans + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,050 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sweetcorn, basmati rice, onion, butter, pepper, broccoli):

  1. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Peasbetter flavor fit
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sweetcorn, basmati rice, onion, butter, pepper, broccoli. 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).