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Grilled Hoisin Pork Chops and Asparagus

The chops and asparagus can be grilled or cooked on a stove-top grill pan, using about the same timing. Or, you can cook the pork on the stovetop and roast the asparagus on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast the spears in a 450°F oven for 10 to 15 minutes, rotating them once and brushing with the sauce.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 378 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

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Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: peanut, 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 + asparagustop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together378 recipes

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

  2. Orange + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Corn + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,068 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Corn + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Ginger + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,402 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 garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, orange, rice wine, sugar, corn, ginger, pork):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Clovebetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, orange, rice wine, sugar, corn, ginger, pork. 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).