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Kiwi-Lime Pork Ribs

"This lovely dish pops with flavor and brings the tastes of the tropics to your dinner table!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and pork work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 565 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (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. Preheat the oven to 325°F (163°C). Rub the pork ribs all over with the salt and chili powder, place them in a baking dish, cover tightly with foil, and bake for 45 minutes.

  2. While the ribs bake, combine the sliced kiwis, white sugar, cider vinegar, lime juice and minced garlic in a saucepan. Simmer over medium heat for 10 minutes, mashing the kiwi as it softens.

  3. Stir the cornstarch with a splash of water until smooth, then stir it into the simmering kiwi sauce. Cook 2 minutes more, until thickened. Remove from heat.

  4. Remove the foil from the ribs and brush them generously with the kiwi-lime sauce. Bake uncovered for 15 minutes more, brushing once more with sauce halfway through.

  5. Check the thickest part of the ribs with a meat thermometer. Cook until it reads at least 145°F (63°C). Let the ribs rest for 3 minutes before serving with any remaining sauce spooned over top.

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. Lime + porktop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Cider + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together402 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  3. Vinegar + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,034 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Lime + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,411 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Garlic + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cider, vinegar, lime, pork):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Allspicebetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cider, vinegar, lime, pork. 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).