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Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Butternut Squash Mash and Tarragon Gravy

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Butternut squash and agave share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Butternut squash + agavetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mustard + tarragontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  3. Pepper + tarragontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,691 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Pork + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,440 recipes

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

  5. Pork + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,848 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, pork, pepper, butter, mustard, agave, tarragon):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, pork, pepper, butter, mustard, agave, tarragon. 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).