Name: Creamy Rice with Double Apricots
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 50g pudding rice; 500ml carton long-life vanilla-flavoured sweetened soya milk alternative (we used UHT Provamel organic vanilla); 50g ready-to-eat dried apricots , chopped into small pieces; 1 tbsp golden caster sugar; 250ml carton soya single cream alternative (we used UHT Provamel Soya Dream); 8 tbsp apricot compote or 4 tbsp apricot conserve; 1 tbsp shelled pistachio nuts, chopped

Why it works: Pistachio and nuts match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 425 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Creamy Rice with Double Apricots

Serves 4

Ingredients

50g pudding rice
500ml carton long-life vanilla-flavoured sweetened soya milk alternative (we used UHT Provamel organic vanilla)
50g ready-to-eat dried apricots , chopped into small pieces
1 tbsp golden caster sugar
250ml carton soya single cream alternative (we used UHT Provamel Soya Dream)
8 tbsp apricot compote or 4 tbsp apricot conserve
1 tbsp shelled pistachio nuts, chopped

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

643Calories

19 gProtein

27 gFat

82 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Pistachio	1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)	159
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Apricot	1 medium (35g)	17
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Pudding	not in our table	0

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.

Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together425 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Vanilla + apricottop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together608 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).
Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,374 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Vanilla + pistachiotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together407 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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 (rice, vanilla, milk, apricot, sugar, cream, pistachio):

Almondfits better
Chestnutfits better
Hazelnutfits better
Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, vanilla, milk, apricot, sugar, cream, pistachio. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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