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Slow Cooker Mole-Style Pulled Pork

"Chocolate, chili powder and cinnamon give this slowly cooked pork a distinctively rich and smoky flavor. Put the ingredients together in the morning, and you'll come home to irresistibly good pork to serve in warm tortillas."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Mole-Style Pulled Pork

Why it works: Cumin and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,103 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Mole-Style Pulled Pork

12 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1160Calories
49 gProtein
29 gFat
175 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
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. Cumin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Cinnamon + plumtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together513 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Onion + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cumin, cinnamon, pork, chocolate, flour, plum):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cumin, cinnamon, pork, chocolate, flour, plum. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.