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Braised Chinese Pork with Sesame Spring Greens

This recipe looks lengthy but it takes care of itself once in the oven to create a succulent, flavoursome dish

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 456 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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

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

  2. Star anise + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Ginger + star anisetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Ginger + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, sauce, rice wine, star anise, cinnamon, sugar, pork):

  1. Clovebetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, sauce, rice wine, star anise, cinnamon, sugar, 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).