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Easy Tasty Dates

"This is a very easy but good recipe. People will think you are a gourmet chef with these dates filled with chevre cheese and pecans!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Easy Tasty Dates

Why it works: Dates and pecans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Easy Tasty Dates

20 servings
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

284Calories
10 gProtein
14 gFat
32 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

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. Dates + pecanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Goat cheese + pecanstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Goat cheese + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together196 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

  5. Dates + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together985 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (goat cheese, pecans, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against goat cheese, pecans, vinegar, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.