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Pork Burritos with Green Pepper Sauce

A slow‑cooked pork roast shredded and served in flour tortillas with green pepper sauce, salsa, and cheese.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,216 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pork Burritos with Green Pepper Sauce

12 burritos
Time8–10 hours on low

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salsa base

  1. Heat oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat.

  2. Add garlic and onion and cook until tender.

  3. Stir the next 10 ingredients into the skillet.

Slow-cook and shred the pork

  1. Put the pork roast into a 5-quart slow cooker.

  2. Cover the roast with the salsa mixture.

  3. Cover and cook on low for 8–10 hours or until the meat is fork-tender.

  4. Remove the roast and let it stand 10 minutes on a cutting board.

  5. Shred the pork with forks.

Make the green chile sauce

  1. Transfer 5 cups of salsa mixture from the cooker into a 2-quart saucepan.

  2. Stir in the diced green chiles.

  3. Cook over medium heat until it boils.

  4. Reduce the heat to medium-low.

  5. Cook and stir for 15 minutes to thicken the mixture.

Assemble the burritos

  1. Spoon a cup of shredded pork down the center of each tortilla.

  2. Top each tortilla with 2 tablespoons of green chile sauce.

  3. Roll the sides of the tortilla over and then fold up the ends to hold the filling.

  4. Cover the burritos with the remaining green chile sauce and shredded Monterey Jack cheese.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1185Calories
55 gProtein
43 gFat
146 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Waternot 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.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Lime + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,216 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Lime + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  5. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pork loin roast
Slow cooking in the salsa keeps the lean meat moist enough to shred into the filling.
Medium chunky salsa and mild chunky salsa
Supply most of the cooking liquid and tomato acidity that flavours the pork and the sauce.
Diced green chiles
Add mild heat and a green, roasted flavour to the sauce.
Monterey jack cheese
Melts into a creamy layer that binds the filling and adds richness.
Flour tortillas
Wrap that holds the filling; their gluten lets them roll without tearing.
Onion
Cooked until tender, it adds sweetness and a savoury aromatic base.

The step that matters

Cook and stir for 15 minutes to thicken the mixture.. Simmering reduces the water in the sauce so it thickens and clings to the tortilla instead of making it soggy. Stirring keeps the sauce from sticking and scorching on the bottom of the pan.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, garlic, lime, pepper, lemon, cumin, pork):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, garlic, lime, pepper, lemon, cumin, pork. 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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