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Cashew Raisin Rice Pilaf

"Very good low-fat rice pilaf. This dish is very good with poultry and pork dishes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and raisin work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 562 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Rice + raisintop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together562 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Rice + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Carrot + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,555 recipes

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

  4. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Carrot + peastop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, onion, carrot, raisin, chicken, wild rice, pepper):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  3. Black-eyed peaabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, onion, carrot, raisin, chicken, wild rice, pepper. 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).