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Oven Roasted Aromatic Ribs with a Bourbon & Orange Glaze

The aroma and flavour of this glaze gives a delicious kick to pork ribs - perfect if you're cooking on a barbecue too

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Oven Roasted Aromatic Ribs with a Bourbon & Orange Glaze

Why it works: Orange and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,833 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Oven Roasted Aromatic Ribs with a Bourbon & Orange Glaze

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

442Calories
30 gProtein
15 gFat
48 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Orange Juice1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Saladnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + ketchuptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Orange + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together689 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,887 recipes

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

  5. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sugar, ginger, tomato, ketchup, white wine, vinegar):

  1. Applefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sugar, ginger, tomato, ketchup, white wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.