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Jerk Pork Tenderloin

Baked sweet potatoes are great with the jerk pork. Scrub medium sweet potatoes and pierce in a few places with a fork. Place on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated 400°F oven until tender, about 1 hour.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 18,199 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6.

Ingredients

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. Pork + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,199 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Thyme + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,077 recipes

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

  4. Lime + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together305 recipes

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

  5. Lime + allspicetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together147 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, garlic, onion, lime, sauce, canola oil, thyme):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, garlic, onion, lime, sauce, canola oil, thyme. 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).