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Deer Chop Hurry

"I personally am not a big fan on wild meat BUT my husband is! With this recipe it doesn't taste 'gamey' at all. It's very tender as well. I even go back for seconds!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Deer and onion work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Place the chopped onion in the bottom of a slow cooker.

  2. In a bowl, whisk together the ketchup, water, brown sugar and dry onion soup mix until smooth.

  3. Arrange the deer chops over the onion and pour the sauce evenly over them.

  4. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours (360 minutes), until the chops are very tender.

  5. Check the thickest part of the chops with a meat thermometer. It should read at least 145°F (63°C). Rest the chops for 3 minutes before serving.

  6. Spoon the sauce from the slow cooker over the chops when serving.

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. Deer + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Ketchup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Deer + venisontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Ketchup + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,995 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Venison + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together401 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (deer, venison, ketchup, sugar):

  1. Mustardabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Shallotabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against deer, venison, ketchup, sugar. 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).