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"These rye slices topped with sausage and cheese are so easy and so delicious that they are sure to please. In fact, my husband loves them so much that I sometimes make them on regular-sized rye bread for dinner."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,030 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

2 dozen
Prep2 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment or foil.

  2. In a skillet over medium heat, cook the ground pork sausage, breaking it up, until no pink remains and it reaches 160°F (71°C) inside, about 8 minutes. Drain off excess fat.

  3. Stir the minced onion, garlic powder and ground black pepper into the hot sausage and cook 2 minutes more until the onion softens.

  4. Stir the process cheese sauce into the sausage mixture over low heat until smooth and warmed through, about 2 minutes.

  5. Arrange the cocktail rye bread slices on the prepared baking sheet in a single layer.

  6. Spoon a rounded teaspoon of the sausage mixture onto each rye slice, spreading it to the edges.

  7. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes until the bread edges are crisp and the topping is bubbling. Serve warm.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Cheese + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Pork + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  5. Pork + breadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,342 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 (pork, onion, pepper, cheese, sauce, rye, bread):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, pepper, cheese, sauce, rye, bread. 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).