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Pork Mole Coloradito Recipe

Mole sauce isn't easy to make, but it's worth the effort. This version is redolent of cumin, oregano, and chocolate, which play off the gentle spice of dried...

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Why it works: Pork and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,828 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

6 1/2 cups (about 8 to 10 servings)

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, tree nuts, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pork + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,828 recipes

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

  2. Cumin + mexican oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Cumin + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mexican oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, garlic, cumin, sesame, thyme, tomato):

  1. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Mexican oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, garlic, cumin, sesame, thyme, tomato. 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).