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Brandied Peach Pork Chops

Pan-seared pork chops with a delicious brandy peach sauce.

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Why it works: Thyme and peach share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 40 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the canola oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the pork chops and sear for 4 to 5 minutes per side until browned, then move them to a plate.

  2. Lower the heat to medium. Add the sliced shallots and chopped thyme to the skillet and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes until softened.

  3. Pour in the brandy and let it bubble for 1 minute, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Stir in the peach preserves and frozen peaches and simmer for 5 minutes until the peaches soften.

  4. Return the pork chops and any juices to the skillet and spoon the sauce over them. Cover and simmer over medium-low heat for 8 to 10 minutes, until a thermometer inserted in the thickest part reads at least 145°F (63°C).

  5. Transfer the chops to a plate and rest them for 3 minutes. Meanwhile, remove the skillet from the heat, stir the butter into the sauce until melted, then spoon the sauce over the chops and serve.

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

  1. Thyme + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Shallot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Brandy + peachtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Pork + canola oiltop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together265 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  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 shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, canola oil, thyme, butter, brandy, peach):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, canola oil, thyme, butter, brandy, peach. 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).