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Peach Barbecue Sauce

A full-bodied, smoky-sweet flavored BBQ sauce that’s great for dips or as a pizza sauce.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Peach Barbecue Sauce

Why it works: Clove and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,306 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Peach Barbecue Sauce

Serves 8
Prep5 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

163Calories
3 gProtein
2 gFat
37 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cloves1 tsp ground (2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0

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.

  1. Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,306 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Cumin + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Peach + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Molasses + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (molasses, clove, cumin, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against molasses, clove, cumin, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.