Name: Grilled Marinated Honey Chipotle Pork Chops
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon Honey; 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil Plus Extra For Brushing On Grill Grates; 1 teaspoon Lemon Juice; 1 teaspoon Soy Sauce; ½ teaspoons Ground Chipotle Pepper, (smoked Or Plain Paprika Can Be Used As An Alternative); 1 pound Boneless Pork Chops, Thinly-cut (1/2-inch Thick)

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Grilled Marinated Honey Chipotle Pork Chops

Serves 4

Prep20 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

1 Tablespoon Honey
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil Plus Extra For Brushing On Grill Grates
1 teaspoon Lemon Juice
1 teaspoon Soy Sauce
½ teaspoons Ground Chipotle Pepper, (smoked Or Plain Paprika Can Be Used As An Alternative)
1 pound Boneless Pork Chops, Thinly-cut (1/2-inch Thick)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

460Calories

29 gProtein

28 gFat

25 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6

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

By tastykitchen. 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.

Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + porktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,716 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,263 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Honey + olivetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,792 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (honey, olive, sauce, pepper, pork):

Mangofits better
Avocadofits better
Limefits about as well
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, olive, sauce, pepper, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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