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Ham and Swiss with Peanut Honey Sandwich Spread

"The classic ham and Swiss sandwich gets an update with a peanut butter and lime spread on sandwich thin rolls."

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Why it works: Honey and swiss cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 31 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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

  • Peanut Honey Sandwich Spread
  • Sandwich

Directions

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

  1. In a small bowl, stir the peanut butter, honey, lime juice, reduced-sodium soy sauce and garlic powder until smooth and spreadable.

  2. Split the honey whole wheat sandwich thins open and spread the peanut honey mixture evenly over the cut sides of both halves.

  3. Place green leaf lettuce on the bottom half of each sandwich thin.

  4. Divide the thinly sliced honey ham evenly among the sandwiches, folding it as needed, then top each with a slice of Swiss cheese.

  5. Close each sandwich with its top half, cut in half if desired, and serve right away.

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. Honey + swiss cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together31 recipes

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

  2. Peanut + wheattop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Butter + swiss cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Peanut + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together877 recipes

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

  5. Honey + wheattop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together346 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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 (peanut, butter, honey, lime, sauce, wheat, lettuce):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against peanut, butter, honey, lime, sauce, wheat, lettuce. 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).