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Pork and Green Chile Casserole

"Make your taste buds feel like they're at a fiesta, with this great dish. It's a brown rice casserole with cubed pork, green chilies, black beans, and spices that blend together to make your taste buds sing. It's great for pot luck dinners, or having friends over for dinner. Try it, you won't regret it."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Pork and Green Chile Casserole

Why it works: Beans and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,188 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Pork and Green Chile Casserole

10 servings
Prep15 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1046Calories
79 gProtein
48 gFat
73 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Soupnot in our table0
Waternot 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. Beans + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,188 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,272 recipes

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

  4. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Rice + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, rice, cream, chicken, beans, tomato, pepper):

  1. Garlicfits about as well
  2. Cuminthe original
  3. Celeryfits about as well
  4. Thymefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, rice, cream, chicken, beans, tomato, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.