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Sesame Sake Pork Medallions

"Toasty sesame seeds and sake cooking wine is a perfect pair for versatile pork tenderloin."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Sesame Sake Pork Medallions

Why it works: Sesame and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,192 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Sesame Sake Pork Medallions

4 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1195Calories
41 gProtein
54 gFat
120 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Sake1 oz (30ml)39
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Toasted Sesame Seednot 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. Sesame + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Sake + winetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-mercapto-4-methylpentan-2-one (catty, blackcurrant).

  3. Sake + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

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

  4. Sesame + porktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together456 recipes

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

  5. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sake, wine, sugar, sesame, pork, butter):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sake, wine, sugar, sesame, pork, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.