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Mustard-Glazed Pork Tenderloin

Pork tenderloins are perfect for the grill and for our hectic lifestyles because this cut cooks fairly quickly and can feed a lot of people. For delicious success every time, remove the silver skin on the tenderloins before cooking, grill over medium heat and don’t overcook the meat.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Red currant and mustard work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 47 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

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

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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. Red currant + mustardtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  2. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Garlic + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Pork + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,440 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Sherry + red curranttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 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 red currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sugar, sherry, garlic, cinnamon, pork, mustard):

  1. Applebetter flavor fit
  2. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  3. Plumbetter flavor fit
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sugar, sherry, garlic, cinnamon, pork, mustard. 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).