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Plum Glaze for Pork

"A great sweet, spicy glaze for pork roast or chicken. Any leftover can be served with the meat as a dip."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Plum Glaze for Pork

Why it works: Clove and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,874 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Plum Glaze for Pork

1 1/2 cups
Prep10 min
Cook37 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

275Calories
3 gProtein
14 gFat
40 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
White Grape Juice1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
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. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Lime + allspicetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

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

  4. Plum + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Clove + limetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together909 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, garlic, onion, plum, sauce, lime, allspice):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, garlic, onion, plum, sauce, lime, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.