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Pork Scaloppine with Prosciutto and Capers

This recipe pairs the intense, complex flavor of cured pork with fresh pork—it’s a winning combination, as this recipe demonstrates. If your pan isn’t big enough to cook all the cutlets in one layer, cook them in two batches or use two pans. Don’t move the cutlets after placing them in the pan until it is time to turn them, as they need to develop a perfectly golden crust.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Pork Scaloppine with Prosciutto and Capers

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 23,449 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. 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. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Olive + caperstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pepper + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  4. Olive + porktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,980 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Garlic + white winetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,938 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, pepper, olive, pork, prosciutto, capers, white wine):

  1. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Garlicthe original
  4. Basilabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, pepper, olive, pork, prosciutto, capers, white wine. 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).