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Pork Chops with Black Cherry Sauce

"Cherries and pork may sound like a weird combo, but these are amazing, and a great way to use up all those summer cherries."

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Pork Chops with Black Cherry Sauce

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 ↓

Pork Chops with Black Cherry Sauce

4 pork chops
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

879Calories
56 gProtein
55 gFat
35 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  2. Pepper + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Red wine + rosemarytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Shallot + rosemarytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, butter, red wine, beef, rosemary):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, butter, red wine, beef, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.