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Spicy Pork and Pineapple Tacos

Citrus-marinated pork and grilled pineapple wonton tacos dolloped with crema.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 313 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl isobutyrate, which smells flower. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep5 hr
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pork + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl isobutyrate (flower).

  2. Oregano + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + clovetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Orange + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Oregano + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, apple cider vinegar, sugar, oregano, cumin, pepper, clove):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, apple cider vinegar, sugar, oregano, cumin, pepper, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).