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Salt and Spice Pork Wrap

"First this recipe is very easy to make and cooks fairly fast. All it takes is a pork chop, some onion salt, cayenne pepper, a tortilla, cheese, and a touch of salsa, or guacamole."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Salt and Spice Pork Wrap

Why it works: Pork and cheddar cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,505 recipes mention both. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Salt and Spice Pork Wrap

1 serving
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

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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 + cheddar cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,214 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Onion + cheddar cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,669 recipes

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

  5. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together22,121 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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, flour, cheddar cheese):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Chivebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, flour, cheddar cheese. 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).