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Pork Chops with Grilled Apple Puree

Pork chops have a tendency to dry out on the grill, but brining them beforehand is the secret to adding moisture and extra flavor. Many varieties of tart apples are available year-round and when they are brushed with melted butter and spices and grilled, they become a perfect complement to the pork.

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Why it works: Pork and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,577 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Pork + appletop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  2. Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Rosemary + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Cinnamon + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Allspice + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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 (sugar, rosemary, allspice, pepper, pork, butter, cinnamon):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Clovebetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, rosemary, allspice, pepper, pork, butter, cinnamon. 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).