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Stand Up and Cheer BBQ Pork Mini-pies Recipe

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By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 9,023 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stand Up and Cheer BBQ Pork Mini-pies Recipe

15 - 20

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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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together10,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pork + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Onion and sauce share little aroma chemistry, yet 10,474 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

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

  1. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Mustardabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, potato, sauce. 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).