Name: Vegetarian Delight Fried Rice Recipe
Yield: 5-6 servings
Ingredients: 2/3 cup, washed, diced red bell peppers into small bits; 2/3 cup, washed, diced carrots into small bits; 2/3 cup, washed, diced broccoli, small bits; 2/3 cup, peeled, rinsed, diced red onions, small bits; 1 cup of diced button mushrooms, small bits; 2 cloves garlic, crushed and finely diced; 5 cups cooked rice (refrigerate overnight so it is less starchy and bring it to room temperature before cooking so you can keep the wok/skillet hot and ready for stir-frying).; For seasoning, please read the whole recipe before cooking because each vegetable is seasoned at each stir-fry.; salt; soy sauce; cooking oil

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Broccoli + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,072 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,873 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,555 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 (pepper, carrot, broccoli, onion, mushroom, garlic, rice):

Parsleyfits better
Thymefits better
Cuminfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, carrot, broccoli, onion, mushroom, garlic, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Red Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Red Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Vegetarian Delight Fried Rice Recipe