Name: Sticky Grilled Pork with Wedges and Little Gem Salad
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 2 large potatoes , red if possible, cut into wedges, skin on; olive oil; 1 tbsp honey; 1 tbsp brown sugar; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 garlic clove , crushed; 1 pork tenderloin fillet, about 300g; 2 tbsp mayonnaise; 2 tbsp white wine vinegar; 4 spring onions , shredded; 2 Little Gem lettuce , leaves separated

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 25,665 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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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.

Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Potato + porktop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together2,668 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together6,458 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, olive, honey, sugar, sauce, garlic, pork):

Thymebetter flavor fit
Gingerbetter flavor fit
Rosemarybetter flavor fit
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, olive, honey, sugar, sauce, garlic, pork. 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).

Sticky Grilled Pork with Wedges and Little Gem Salad