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Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Tamarind-chipotle Glaze

Make the mash if you have time, or serve the Cuban-inspired pork as part of a barbecue with a salad

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Tamarind and pork work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 37 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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By bbcgoodfood. 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. Tamarind + porktop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Cumin + tamarindtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Tomato + cumintop 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 cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, red wine, vinegar, garlic, tomato, ketchup, sugar):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, red wine, vinegar, garlic, tomato, ketchup, 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).