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Cider-Braised Pork Belly Quesadillas

Cider-braised pork belly quesadillas with Havarti cheese and pickled onions. Oh yeah!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Cider-Braised Pork Belly Quesadillas

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Cider-Braised Pork Belly Quesadillas

Serves 6
Prep40 min
Cook8 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

768Calories
40 gProtein
41 gFat
62 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Apple Cider1 medium (182g)95
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Vealnot in our table0
Leafnot in our table0
Burritonot 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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Apple + cidertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,238 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Apple + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,774 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Canola oil + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, canola oil, cider, veal, clove, garlic, onion):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Applethe original
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Mangofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, canola oil, cider, veal, clove, garlic, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.