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Quince and Pomegranate Glazed Pork Recipe

This marinade has fantastic and unusual flavours that work very well with the pork. The fillet is a completely lean cut, but needs every bit of flavour it can get as a result of the lack of fat.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pomegranate and cinnamon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Quince and Pomegranate Glazed Pork Recipe

4 people
Prep1 hr
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

569Calories
29 gProtein
29 gFat
52 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Quincenot 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 lovefood. 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. Pomegranate + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Cumin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Pomegranate + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Quince + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together199 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Cumin + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,853 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the quince

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pomegranate, molasses, honey, cumin, cinnamon, pork, olive):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Quincethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pomegranate, molasses, honey, cumin, cinnamon, pork, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.