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Fried Pork Fillet with Quince and Wilted Chard

Pork fillet paired with the earthy taste of chard and a quince sauce, as an alternative to apple.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and chard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 320 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Fried Pork Fillet with Quince and Wilted Chard

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

530Calories
28 gProtein
39 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Quincenot in our table0
Chardnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Olive + chardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Lemon + chardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Pepper + chardtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together252 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the quince

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, olive, butter, sugar, lemon, chard):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Quincethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, olive, butter, sugar, lemon, chard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.