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Figs Oozing with Goat Cheese

"Fresh figs stuffed with succulent goat cheese, wrapped in grape leaves, roasted on the grill, and drizzled with honey. For an extra oomph of flavor, skewer the figs on rosemary fronds. One bite and you'll feel as if you've reached nirvana!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Fig and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 35 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook3 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Fig + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Fig + honeytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

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

  3. Grape + honeytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together694 recipes

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

  4. Fig + grapetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together322 recipes

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

  5. Goat cheese + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fig, goat cheese, honey):

  1. Pearabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fig, goat cheese, 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).