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Pork-stuffed Cabbage Leaves

These bundles of cabbage filled with paprika-flavoured pork are fiddly at first, but once you’ve got the hang of rolling them, this’ll be a dish you’ll return to again and again.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and cabbage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 919 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 24 (serves 6)
Prep1 hr
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Pork + cabbagetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together919 recipes

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

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + cabbagetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,080 recipes

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

  5. Rice + sunflowertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, sunflower, onion, garlic, pork, pepper, cabbage):

  1. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cuminabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sunflower, onion, garlic, pork, pepper, cabbage. 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).