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Braised Pigs’ Cheeks and Ham-wrapped Pork Loin with Mustard Mash, Apple Purée and Toffee Apples

Homemade toffee apples dunked in apple sauce add a playful touch to this grown-up recipe.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,340 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Braised Pigs’ Cheeks and Ham-wrapped Pork Loin with Mustard Mash, Apple Purée and Toffee Apples

Serves 4
Prep1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

935Calories
66 gProtein
30 gFat
97 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 19 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Swedenot 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. Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Leek + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Leek + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, leek, carrot, celery, thyme, rosemary, chicken):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Winter savoryfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, leek, carrot, celery, thyme, rosemary, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.