Name: Grape and Wild Rice Stuffing Recipe
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1/4 cup butter; 1 large onion, chopped; 1 clove garlic, minced; 6 1/2 cups vegetable broth; 2 cups wild rice; 2 cups long grain rice; 3 cups fresh Chilean red and green grapes, cut in half; 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley; 1 1/2 cups toasted pecans, roughly chopped

Why it works: Rice and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 815 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12

Ingredients

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

1/4 cup butter
1 large onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
6 1/2 cups vegetable broth
2 cups wild rice
2 cups long grain rice
3 cups fresh Chilean red and green grapes, cut in half
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 1/2 cups toasted pecans, roughly chopped

Directions

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By chow. 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.

Rice + grapetop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together815 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,030 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together9,294 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Butter + pecanstop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together2,408 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Onion + ricetop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together9,990 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, garlic, wild rice, rice, grape, parsley):

Beansbetter flavor fit
Chickpeabetter flavor fit
Sesamebetter flavor fit
Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, garlic, wild rice, rice, grape, parsley. 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).

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