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Pork Chops with Black Currant Sauce

Create an easy yet elegant weeknight meal in minutes by pairing pork chops with our French-inspired finishing sauce. Serve wilted Swiss chard alongside (see related recipe at left).

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Pork Chops with Black Currant Sauce

Why it works: Pork and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,933 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Pork Chops with Black Currant Sauce

Serves 2.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

494Calories
27 gProtein
39 gFat
2 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Black Currantnot in our table0
Saucenot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Pepper + black curranttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Red wine + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,599 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Pepper + red winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 recipes

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

Sauce and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the black currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, red wine, sauce, butter):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Black currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, red wine, sauce, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.