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Asian Pineapple Sauce

"Pineapple sauce for teriyaki chicken and Asian noodles."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and sauce work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 360 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Pour the pineapple juice and water into a medium saucepan and add the white sugar.

  2. Set the pan over medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves and the liquid just starts to simmer.

  3. Add the drained chopped pineapple, teriyaki sauce, soy sauce and garlic powder, and stir to combine.

  4. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for about 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sauce is slightly thickened and syrupy.

  5. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the lemon juice.

  6. Let the sauce cool for a few minutes and serve warm, or transfer to a jar and refrigerate.

By allrecipes. 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. Pineapple + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lemon + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,862 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pineapple + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,962 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together53,530 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,839 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 53,530 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 garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, sauce, lemon, sugar):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sauce, lemon, sugar. 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).