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Couscous-Stuffed Pork Chops

"Pork loin chops are stuffed with a mixture of couscous, currants, and pine nuts, then coated in marmalade, and baked."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Couscous-Stuffed Pork Chops

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Couscous-Stuffed Pork Chops

6 servings
Prep35 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1060Calories
72 gProtein
50 gFat
86 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Couscous1 cup cooked (157g)176
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Clove + pinetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Garlic + pinetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together708 recipes

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

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, onion, clove, garlic, pine, nuts):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, onion, clove, garlic, pine, nuts. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.