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Gennaro's Stuffed Porchetta

Gennaro makes a mean stuffed porchetta. It looks and tastes beautiful, but don't be intimidated because it's really not hard to do at all. Get your butcher to butterfly the meat for you then make this beautiful stuffing and roll it up inside the meat before you roast it. You'll want to have a piece of string about an arm's length handy to tie your meat up once you've rolled it.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,375 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By jamieoliver. 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 + chickentop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Pork + livertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  3. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Olive + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  5. Olive + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, onion, olive, chicken, liver, pine):

  1. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, onion, olive, chicken, liver, pine. 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).