Name: Stir Fried Pork with Chilli, Mint and Sugar Snap Peas
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 60ml/2fl oz vegetable oil; 400g/14oz pork loin; 100g/3½oz lemongrass; 1 tbsp palm sugar; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 2 fresh long red chillies, de-seeded, finely sliced; 60g/2½oz sugar snap peas or mange tout; 1 bunch mint; Note: This recipe originally uses Australian measurements. Equivalent measurements are as accurate as possible.

Why it works: Fish sauce and mint work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 246 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Stir Fried Pork with Chilli, Mint and Sugar Snap Peas

Serves 4

Prep30 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

60ml/2fl oz vegetable oil
400g/14oz pork loin
100g/3½oz lemongrass
1 tbsp palm sugar
2 tbsp fish sauce
2 fresh long red chillies, de-seeded, finely sliced
60g/2½oz sugar snap peas or mange tout
1 bunch mint
Note: This recipe originally uses Australian measurements. Equivalent measurements are as accurate as possible.

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

455Calories

29 gProtein

28 gFat

21 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Lemongrass	1 tbsp (6g)	5
Peppermint	not in our table	0

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.

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.

Fish sauce + minttop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together246 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Pork + minttop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together353 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Pork + fish saucetop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together184 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Sugar + minttop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,592 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Sugar + fish saucetop 36% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together850 recipes

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sugar, fish sauce):

Gingerfits better
Cinnamonfits better
Garlicfits better
Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sugar, fish sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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