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Slow Cooker Dim Sum Pulled Pork & Sweet Sesame Snap Peas

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Why it works: Sesame and peas work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 230 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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

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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. Sesame + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Canola oil + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  4. Onion + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

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

  5. Sesame + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, sugar, garlic, canola oil, onion, sauce, oyster):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Capersbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, sugar, garlic, canola oil, onion, sauce, oyster. 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).