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Mrs. Hue’s Caramelized Pork in Clay Pot From Www.savourasia.com Recipe

Mrs. Hue was our housekeeper in Hanoi. She didn't like to cook so didn't do it very often, but I think she was amused by how much I loved fatty pork and amazed...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and coconut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,168 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Mrs. Hue’s Caramelized Pork in Clay Pot From Www.savourasia.com Recipe

2 servings

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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. Ginger + coconuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Ginger + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

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

  3. Onion + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

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

  4. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

The recipe marks coconut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, ginger, fish sauce, pepper, sugar):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Mangobetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutthe original
  4. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, ginger, fish sauce, pepper, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).