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Slow Cooker Spiced Baby Back Rib Tostadas with Corn Relish & Crema

Fall-off-the-bone slow cooked spicy baby back ribs…you’ll never grill ribs again.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Spiced Baby Back Rib Tostadas with Corn Relish & Crema

Why it works: Cumin and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,866 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Spiced Baby Back Rib Tostadas with Corn Relish & Crema

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook8 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

845Calories
36 gProtein
51 gFat
71 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 15 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot in our table0
Tostada Shellnot in our table0
Relishnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cumin + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,866 recipes

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

  2. Coriander + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,094 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Cumin + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  5. Cumin + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together415 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cumin, coriander, garlic, pepper, onion, beef, avocado):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cumin, coriander, garlic, pepper, onion, beef, avocado. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.