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Cuban-Style Pork and Sweet Potatoes

"Sweet and spicy pork and sweet potatoes. Low in fat. High in taste and fiber."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Cuban-Style Pork and Sweet Potatoes

Why it works: Sweet potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Cuban-Style Pork and Sweet Potatoes

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

523Calories
35 gProtein
15 gFat
66 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sweet potato + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Orange + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, pork, tomato, pepper, lime, clove, garlic):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, pork, tomato, pepper, lime, clove, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.