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Fennel-and-Prosciutto-Stuffed Pork Loin Roast Recipe

This pork loin roast recipe is stuffed with bread, fennel, apple, and prosciutto.

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Fennel-and-Prosciutto-Stuffed Pork Loin Roast Recipe

Why it works: Fennel and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 157 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

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6 servings
Cook3 hr

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

  1. Fennel + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Rosemary + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Fennel + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,216 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Wheat + breadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together196 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, bread, fennel, apple, butter, rosemary, pepper):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, bread, fennel, apple, butter, rosemary, pepper. 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).