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Midwestern Pork Chop Dinner

"Pork chops baked over a creamy vegetable bed of potatoes, carrots, kohlrabi and seasonings. A tasty tummy warmer for a cold night. You may substitute onion for kohlrabi if it's not available."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,667 recipes mention both. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr 50 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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish with the vegetable oil.

  2. Season both sides of the pork chops with salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Layer the sliced potatoes, carrots and kohlrabi in the dish. Sprinkle with the 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, the dried marjoram and the black pepper.

  4. Arrange the seasoned pork chops over the vegetables and pour the milk evenly over everything.

  5. Cover the dish tightly with foil and bake for 60 minutes.

  6. Uncover and bake for 45 to 50 minutes more, until the vegetables are tender and the thickest part of the pork reads at least 145°F (63°C) on an instant-read thermometer.

  7. Let the pork rest for 3 minutes before 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. Pork + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Carrot + marjoramtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Pepper + marjoramtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Potato + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,105 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Pepper + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,555 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

Flavor stand-ins for the kohlrabi

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, potato, carrot, marjoram, milk):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  4. Kohlrabithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, potato, carrot, marjoram, milk. 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).