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Slow-cooked Pork Belly with Crab Apple Jelly Recipe

Serve this dish with either creamy mashed potatoes or boiled new potatoes and plenty of seasonal vegetables.

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Why it works: Clove and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 519 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Slow-cooked Pork Belly with Crab Apple Jelly Recipe

4 people
Prep30 min
Cook3 hr 55 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

954Calories
86 gProtein
31 gFat
81 gCarbs

Counts 19 of 23 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 19 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Shrimp100g cooked99
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Star Anisenot 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 lovefood. 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. Clove + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together519 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Garlic + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,474 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,180 recipes

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

  4. Coriander + rosemarytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together144 recipes

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

  5. Clove + coriandertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,221 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the coriander

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, clove, pork, honey, garlic, rosemary):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Corianderthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, clove, pork, honey, garlic, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.