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Sautéed Pork Chops with Kale Salad

A honey-mustard vinaigrette lends bright flavors to both the meat and the salad. Unlike lettuce salads, which need to be served as soon as they are made, kale benefits from being prepared ahead.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and pork work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 177 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

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Serves 4.

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By williamssonoma. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Kale + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Cider + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Honey + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together567 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Vinegar + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Mustard + kaletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

Vinegar and mustard share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cider, vinegar, mustard, honey, olive, pepper, kale):

  1. Grapeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cider, vinegar, mustard, honey, olive, pepper, kale. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).