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Pork with Five-spice, Walnuts & Green Beans

Spice up your pork with this easy recipe, perfect for midweek meals

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Pork with Five-spice, Walnuts & Green Beans

Why it works: Walnut and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 440 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Pork with Five-spice, Walnuts & Green Beans

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

428Calories
29 gProtein
30 gFat
8 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

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. Walnut + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Olive + green beanstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Green beans + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Olive + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, olive, green beans, shallot, white wine, vinegar):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, olive, green beans, shallot, white wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.