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Apple-Stuffed Pork Loin with Cider Sauce

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Why it works: Pork and cider work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 271 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

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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 + cidertop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Apple + cidertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

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

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  5. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, apple, onion, garlic, apricot, thyme, pepper):

  1. Plumbetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, apple, onion, garlic, apricot, thyme, pepper. 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).