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BBQ Pork Salad with Summer Fruits and Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette

"A festive, colorful salad with the fresh flavors of summer fruits and sliced BBQ pork dressed with a spicy honey balsamic vinaigrette. A tasty one-dish meal for summer!"

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Why it works: Pork and grapefruit work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

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

  • Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette

Directions

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

  1. Whisk together the balsamic vinegar, honey, Dijon mustard, mayonnaise, chili powder, 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon black pepper in a bowl until smooth.

  2. Slowly whisk in the 3/8 cup salad oil until the vinaigrette is emulsified. Set aside.

  3. Season the sliced cooked pork chops lightly with salt and black pepper.

  4. Heat the 1 tablespoon salad oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the pork and warm through for about 3 minutes, turning once. Remove from heat.

  5. Divide the mixed greens among four plates.

  6. Arrange the nectarine wedges, grapefruit segments, avocado wedges and cherry tomatoes over the greens.

  7. Top each salad with the warm sliced pork.

  8. Drizzle with some of the honey balsamic vinaigrette, sprinkle with the toasted almonds, and serve with the remaining dressing on the side.

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. Pork + grapefruittop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Grapefruit + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

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

  3. Avocado + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Grapefruit + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Vinegar + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,583 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, grapefruit, avocado, almond, pepper, vinegar, honey):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, grapefruit, avocado, almond, pepper, vinegar, honey. 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).