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Creamy Ranch Pork Chops and Rice

"A star is born when a favorite herbed salad dressing mix gives new life to this classic mushroom-sauced pork chop skillet. It's easy and your family will love it served with ranch-flavored rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,025 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

  2. Sprinkle both sides of the pork chops with paprika. Brown the chops in the hot oil for 3 to 4 minutes per side.

  3. In a bowl, whisk the cream of mushroom soup, the half can of milk, and the ranch salad dressing mix until smooth. Pour over the chops.

  4. Reduce heat to medium-low and cover the skillet. Simmer for 10 to 12 minutes, until the thickest part of each chop reaches 145°F (63°C).

  5. Let the chops rest for 3 minutes. Spoon the sauce over the chops and serve with the Ranch-Style Rice.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pork + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,025 recipes

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

  2. Milk + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,354 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Pork + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,383 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Pork + ranchtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Pork + creamtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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