Name: Mushroom Shichimi Rice Bowl
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: Serves 3-4.
Ingredients: 2 cups cooked brown rice*; 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter; 2 cloves garlic, very thinly sliced; Fine-grain sea salt; 12 ounces / 340 g chanterelles or mushrooms of your choice, sliced ~1/4-inch thick; 8 ounces / 225 g firm tofu, cut into tiny cubes; 1 small bunch kale / 3 oz / 85 g, well chopped; Shichimi Togarashi or red pepper flakes, to taste

Why it works: Garlic and kale match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mushroom Shichimi Rice Bowl

Serves 3-4.

Prep15 min

Cook5 min

Ingredients

2 cups cooked brown rice*
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 cloves garlic, very thinly sliced
Fine-grain sea salt
12 ounces / 340 g chanterelles or mushrooms of your choice, sliced ~1/4-inch thick
8 ounces / 225 g firm tofu, cut into tiny cubes
1 small bunch kale / 3 oz / 85 g, well chopped
Shichimi Togarashi or red pepper flakes, to taste

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

537Calories

16 gProtein

31 gFat

53 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Tofu	100g firm	76
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Chanterelle	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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Garlic + kaletop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together490 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Chanterelle + kaletop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1 recipe

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + chanterelletop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together70 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Olive + chanterelletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together91 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, olive, butter, garlic, chanterelle, tofu, kale):

Capersfits better
Thymefits better
Turmericfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, olive, butter, garlic, chanterelle, tofu, kale. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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