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Barbecued Pork with Sage, Lemon & Prosciutto

If the sun's out and the barbie's on - try this super-tasty pork dish with zesty lemon

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Prosciutto and lemon work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 148 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Prosciutto + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together148 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together887 recipes

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

  3. Pork + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,848 recipes

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

  4. Sage + porktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,527 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Lemon + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,197 recipes

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

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