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Ten Minute Tasty Asparagus and Brown Rice

A big bowl of asparagus, sauteed garbanzos, chopped onions, toasted almonds, tossed with brown rice and drizzled with a bit of garlic-tahini dressing.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 244 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6.

Ingredients

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

  • Tahini Dressing

Directions

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By 101cookbooks. 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. Asparagus + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together244 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chickpea + tahinitop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together150 recipes

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

  5. Chickpea + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tahini

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, chickpea, garlic, onion, asparagus, rice, almond):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  3. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  4. Tahinithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, chickpea, garlic, onion, asparagus, rice, almond. 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).