Name: Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Slow Cooker Pork
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 3 h
Yield: 8 to 10
Ingredients: FOR THE ORANGE CORIANDER PORK; 2 pound boneless pork sirloin tip roast; 1 teaspoon ground coriander; 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt; 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 1 onion, cut into thick slices; 1 orange, cut into 1/4-inch-thick rounds (do not peel); 1 cup orange juice; 1 cup canned chicken broth; 2 tablespoons fish sauce or soy sauce; 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh ginger; 6 garlic cloves, smashed under a knife & peeled; FOR THE ROLL ASSEMBLY; one 8-oz. package (8-inch-diameter) rice spring roll wrappers (22 wrappers); 2 cups matchstick cut carrots; 1 cucumber, cut into matchstick (English or Japanese cucumber preferred); 1 medium red bell pepper, cut into matchsticks; 2 cups packed baby spinach leaves; sprigs of fresh mint and basil leaves; 1 cup prepared Sweet Chili Sauce

Why it works: Coriander and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,505 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. 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.

Coriander + gingertop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,505 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,417 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,833 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Coriander + peppertop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,949 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Orange + coriandertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together674 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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 (coriander, pork, pepper, onion, chicken, fish sauce, ginger):

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Fit is the average pairing score against coriander, pork, pepper, onion, chicken, fish sauce, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Basil	5 leaves fresh (2.5g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Coriander	not in our table	0
Peppermint	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Slow Cooker Pork