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Tokyo Five Grain Recipe

A colorful grain blend inspired by a recent trip to Japan. It features equal parts brown rice, red rice, and millet, plus some quinoa and amaranth.

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Why it works: Quinoa and amaranth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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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. Quinoa + amaranthtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Millet + quinoatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Millet + amaranthtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Rice + millettop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Rice + quinoatop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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