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Slow Cooker Pozole

"This is the easiest recipe I've found for making Pozole. Your kitchen never smelled so good! Excellent on cool or cold day. We garnish it with cilantro and sliced radishes and serve with a side of Mexican rice and tortillas."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Pozole

Why it works: Mexican oregano and cumin share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 69 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Pozole

6 servings
Prep45 min
Cook7 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

720Calories
86 gProtein
33 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Mexican Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
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. Mexican oregano + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Garlic + mexican oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

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

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

Swap the mexican oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, beef, pork, onion, garlic, cumin):

  1. Oreganofits about as well
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Corianderfits about as well
  4. Mexican oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, beef, pork, onion, garlic, cumin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.