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Honey Barbecue Sauce

"Simple and sweet, this sauce is fantastic for ribs!! Makes enough to baste 3 to 4 pounds worth."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Honey Barbecue Sauce

Why it works: Cinnamon and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,380 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Honey Barbecue Sauce

2 cups
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

478Calories
29 gProtein
16 gFat
57 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

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. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + oreganotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together176 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + oreganotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Ginger + oreganotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Ginger + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

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

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

Swap the oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (honey, molasses, ketchup, cinnamon, ginger, meat, pepper):

  1. Clovefits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, molasses, ketchup, cinnamon, ginger, meat, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.