Name: Al Pastor Potato Skins
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 8 h
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 pound FOR THE AL PASTOR:; ½ whole Pork Shoulder, Cubed; 1 whole Large Onion, Quartered; 6 cloves Orange, Juiced; 3 whole Garlic, Minced; 1 teaspoon Pasilla Chili Peppers, Seeded, Boiled And Chopped; 1 teaspoon Ground Cumin; ½ teaspoons Salt; ½ Tablespoons Cracked Black Pepper; 2 Tablespoons Vinegar; 2 whole Canola Oil; 2 Tablespoons FOR THE POTATO SKINS:; 1 pinch Small To Medium Sized Russet Potatoes, Rinsed Clean; 1 pinch Unsalted Butter, melted; 1 cup Salt; 1 whole Cracked Black Pepper; ½ whole Cooked Al Pastor; 3 Tablespoons Roma Tomato, Diced; 3 Tablespoons Avocado, diced; 2 Tablespoons Onion, Minced; 1 whole Pineapple, Diced

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,306 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Onion + cumintop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,498 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (pork, onion, clove, garlic, pepper, cumin, vinegar):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Mangofits better
Orangethe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Pineapple	1 cup chunks (165g)	82
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Al Pastor Potato Skins