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Slow Cooker Bourbon Ribs Recipe

Slow cooker baby back ribs with bourbon barbecue sauce.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Bourbon Ribs Recipe

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Bourbon Ribs Recipe

2 racks of baby back ribs
Cook5 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

190Calories
7 gProtein
5 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0
Coffeenot 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 chow. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Sage + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together731 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Mustard + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  5. Sage + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,025 recipes

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

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

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, mustard, onion, garlic, clove, coffee, ketchup):

  1. Allspicefits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, mustard, onion, garlic, clove, coffee, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.