Name: Pickly Pork Chops with Potatoes and Cabbage
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 4 pork chops; 2 teaspoons white vinegar, or as needed; 1/4 teaspoon dried dill weed, or to taste; 1/4 teaspoon pickling spice, or to taste; salt and ground black pepper to taste; 1 teaspoon white vinegar, or as needed; 1 (14 ounce) can beef broth; 4 large red potatoes, chopped; 1/4 cup white vinegar; 1/4 teaspoon dried dill weed, or to taste; 1/4 teaspoon pickling spice, or to taste; 1 small head cabbage, chopped; 2 tablespoons white vinegar

Why it works: Pork and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

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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.

Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,690 recipes

Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).
Dill + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together423 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,630 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Dill + cabbagetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together47 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,668 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, vinegar, dill, pepper, beef, potato):

Capsicumfits better
Mustardfits better
Tomatofits better
Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, vinegar, dill, pepper, beef, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Pork	100g cooked	242
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Pickly Pork Chops with Potatoes and Cabbage