Name: Havana Grilled Pork Chops
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 4 whole FOR THE MARINADE:; ½ cups Pork Chops, 8 Oz Each; 2 whole Orange Juice; 2 Tablespoons Limes, Juiced; 1 Tablespoon Canola Oil; 3 cloves White Wine Vinegar; 2 Tablespoons Garlic, Sliced Thinly; ½ teaspoons Cilantro, Minced; 1 teaspoon Dried Oregano; 1 teaspoon Ground Cumin; 1 pinch Spanish Smoked Paprika; 1 pinch Salt; 1 Tablespoon Ground Black Pepper; 1 Tablespoon FOR THE VINAIGRETTE:; 1 teaspoon Olive Oil; 2 Tablespoons White Wine Vinegar; ½ whole Yellow Mustard; 1 Tablespoon Orange Juice; ½ teaspoons Lime, Juiced; 1 pinch Cilantro, Minced

Why it works: Orange and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 937 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

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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.

Orange + limetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together937 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Orange + clovetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,987 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Lime + clovetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together909 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Lime + garlictop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,411 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, lime, canola oil, clove, white wine, vinegar, garlic):

Avocadofits better
Mangofits better
Lemonfits better
Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, lime, canola oil, clove, white wine, vinegar, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Oregano	1 tsp dried (1.8g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Havana Grilled Pork Chops