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Apple Cider Pork Chops

Perfectly juicy pork chops brined in apple cider and fried with a salty coriander rub. It takes about 30 minutes to prepare the brine and prepare chops for frying. These chops taste the best when they rest in the brine for 2 hours.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,577 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

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Serves 8
Prep30 min
Cook4 min

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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. Apple + porktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  2. Coriander + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Pepper + porktop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,067 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + appletop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together16,440 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,999 recipes

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

Sugar and apple share little aroma chemistry, yet 16,440 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coriander

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, pepper, apple, pork):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Clovebetter flavor fit
  4. Corianderthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, pepper, apple, pork. 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).