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Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry with Whole Grain Brown Rice

"It's not beef and broccoli without rice. Begin with Uncle Ben's® Whole Grain Brown Rice, then add minced garlic, soy sauce, and stir-fry things up for an unforgettable dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry with Whole Grain Brown Rice

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry with Whole Grain Brown Rice

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

568Calories
36 gProtein
16 gFat
68 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. 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.

  1. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Broccoli + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Broccoli + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  5. Broccoli + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together684 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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 (broccoli, sauce, garlic, beef, onion, rice):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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