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Five-Spice Pork Stir-Fry with Sweet Potatoes and Snap Peas Recipe

This simple, flavorful pork and veggie stir-fry is ideal for a weeknight meal.Game plan: Freeze the pork for about 30 minutes prior to slicing—this makes...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Five-Spice Pork Stir-Fry with Sweet Potatoes and Snap Peas Recipe

Why it works: Sweet potato and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 126 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Five-Spice Pork Stir-Fry with Sweet Potatoes and Snap Peas Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1515Calories
60 gProtein
44 gFat
214 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
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
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.

By chow. 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. Sweet potato + spinachtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together126 recipes

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

  2. Peanut + spinachtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Peanut + sweet potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together64 recipes

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

  4. Spinach + peastop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together550 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Sweet potato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together92 recipes

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

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sherry, sauce, sugar, pork, peanut, sweet potato, spinach):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Peasthe original

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