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Pork and Chicken Adobo

"This recipe is adapted from a famous Filipino restaurant in Manila, Philippines. The longer you marinate in the refrigerator, the better it gets! This is one dish that doesn't spoil right away. Best served hot over steamed rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Pork and Chicken Adobo

Why it works: Pork and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,417 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Pork and Chicken Adobo

4 servings
Cook2 hr

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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 + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,417 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,850 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Pork + garlictop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,169 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 clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, chicken, garlic, vinegar, sauce):

  1. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, chicken, garlic, vinegar, sauce. 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).