Name: Sweet & Sour Pork Stir-fry
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 227g can pineapple slices in juice, drained and chopped, juice reserved; 1 tbsp cornflour; 1 tbsp tomato sauce; 1 tsp each soy and brown sugar; 2 ½ tbsp rice wine vinegar or white wine vinegar; 1 tbsp sunflower oil; 200g stir-fry pork strips, trimmed of fat; 1 red pepper , cut into chunks; 3 spring onions , quartered and shredded

Why it works: Tomato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Sweet & Sour Pork Stir-fry

Serves 2

Prep10 min

Cook5 min

Ingredients

227g can pineapple slices in juice, drained and chopped, juice reserved
1 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp tomato sauce
1 tsp each soy and brown sugar
2 ½ tbsp rice wine vinegar or white wine vinegar
1 tbsp sunflower oil
200g stir-fry pork strips, trimmed of fat
1 red pepper , cut into chunks
3 spring onions , quartered and shredded

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

690Calories

36 gProtein

15 gFat

98 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Pineapple	1 cup chunks (165g)	82
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0

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.

Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,923 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Tomato + sunflowertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together404 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Sunflower + peppertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together568 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Tomato + porktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,843 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pineapple + tomatotop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together306 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, sauce, sugar, rice wine, sunflower, pork, pepper):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Lemonfits better
Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, sauce, sugar, rice wine, sunflower, pork, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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