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Sri Lanka Uru Mus Roast

A roasted pork dish marinated with cardamom, cloves, pepper, garlic, ginger, vinegar, salt, cinnamon, curry powder, and cooked with curry leaves and onions.

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Why it works: Cardamom and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,114 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Sri Lanka Uru Mus Roast

Time1 hour

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the pork and place it in a pan.

  2. Crush the cardamoms and cloves and grind peppercorns, garlic, and ginger.

  3. Slice the onions and chiles.

  4. Prick the pork all over with a fork, then add the cardamoms, cloves, garlic, ginger, vinegar, salt, pepper, cinnamon stick, and curry powder and leave to marinate for 1 hour.

Cook and serve

  1. Cover the pan and cook over a medium heat until the pork is tender.

  2. Remove the pork and gravy to a bowl.

  3. Heat the oil and stir-fry the curry leaves and onion for 2–3 minutes.

  4. Place the meat back into the pan together with the gravy and cook for a few minutes.

  5. Discard the cinnamon stick, then slice the meat and garnish with sliced chiles.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

448Calories
29 gProtein
28 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cardamom1 tsp ground (2g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Curry Leafnot 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.

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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. Cardamom + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,114 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cardamom + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,114 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork
Lean meat that becomes tender and juicy during slow covered cooking in its own gravy.
Vinegar
Acidity that helps tenderize the pork during marinating and brightens the gravy.
Onion
Softens and sweetens as it is stir-fried, adding body to the gravy.
Garlic cloves
Adds pungent aroma that mellows during cooking and flavours the marinade.
Ginger
Adds warm, aromatic pungency that blends into the marinade and gravy.
Oil
Carries fat-soluble spice aromas and helps the onion and curry leaves brown.

The step that matters

Cover the pan and cook over a medium heat until the pork is tender. Lean pork tightens and dries if cooked too hard or too long. Gentle, covered heat traps steam and moisture so the meat softens while staying juicy.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, cardamom, clove, pepper, garlic, ginger, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, cardamom, clove, pepper, garlic, ginger, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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