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Slow-roasted Spiced Pork Loin with Black-eyed Beans & Tomatoes

This dish works as described here, but you can also stuff it into hot flour tortillas or pitta breads to be eaten like a kind of fajita or burrito – superb. Spanish smoked paprika is now widely available, and your butcher can do the trimming and scoring of the pork loin for you to save you some time.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Slow-roasted Spiced Pork Loin with Black-eyed Beans & Tomatoes

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,539 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Slow-roasted Spiced Pork Loin with Black-eyed Beans & Tomatoes

Serves 8

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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. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together845 recipes

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

  3. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Pepper + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, lemon, olive, rosemary, plum, tomato):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Eggplantbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, lemon, olive, rosemary, plum, 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).