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Pork Skin Sandwich

An intricate recipe of crisp pork skin filled with Marmite glazed cabbage leaves, lemon verbena and apple slices.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and apple work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 235 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Pork Skin Sandwich

Makes 1 sandwich

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

592Calories
29 gProtein
40 gFat
34 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
White Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
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 bbcfood. 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. Cabbage + appletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Lemon + cabbagetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together397 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Lemon + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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 (pork, butter, cabbage, apple):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, butter, cabbage, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.