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Sticky 5-spice Ribs with Sweetcorn Salsa

With a little extra time to cook at the weekend, these meaty ribs are a real treat

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Sesame and sweetcorn work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: soy, sesame (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. Sesame + sweetcorntop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Pork + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together456 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,999 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Vinegar + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,583 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Rice wine + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together244 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the star anise

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sauce, rice wine, vinegar, garlic, honey, sesame):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Pepperbetter flavor fit
  4. Star anisethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sauce, rice wine, vinegar, garlic, honey, sesame. 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).