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Pork Chops Creole

A pork chop dish simmered with green peppers, onions, stewed tomatoes, and sage in a broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pork Chops Creole

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook the chopped green peppers and onions in drippings until softened.

  2. Coat the pork chops in flour and brown them on both sides.

Simmer

  1. Add the stewed tomatoes, salt, pepper, sage, and enough boiling water to nearly cover the chops.

  2. Simmer for one hour.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + porktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
Provide the main protein, which becomes tender during the long simmer.
Green peppers
Add savory bulk and a slightly bitter, vegetal flavor to the sauce.
Onions
Soften and sweeten as they cook, building the base flavor of the sauce.
Stewed tomatoes
Supply liquid and acidity that build the sauce around the chops.
Flour
Coats the chops so they brown well and help thicken the sauce.

The step that matters

Brown the floured pork chops on both sides. Browning floured meat creates flavorful Maillard crust and color. Pale chops give a flat-tasting sauce, and flour that is not browned can taste raw.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, pork, flour, tomato, sage):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Okrafits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, pork, flour, tomato, sage. 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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