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Cherry Pork with Spicy Bacon Broccoli and Sweet Potato Brown Rice

Slow cooked chunks of juicy pork belly served with spicy broccoli, sweet rice and a cranberry orange sauce. Amazing!

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,833 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Cherry Pork with Spicy Bacon Broccoli and Sweet Potato Brown Rice

Serves 4
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1005Calories
45 gProtein
32 gFat
130 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

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. Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Sweet potato + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  4. Rice + sweet potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Sweet potato + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together631 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sugar, sauce, rice, sweet potato, garlic, ginger):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sugar, sauce, rice, sweet potato, garlic, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.