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Grilled Cheese, Cinnamon, and Apple Sandwich

"A delicious sandwich with an extra surprise. It's far from your typical grilled cheese. The apple helps to keep you full longer."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,586 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

1 sandwich
Prep10 min
Cook5 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. Peel, core, and thinly slice the apple. Toss the apple slices with the ground cinnamon in a small bowl.

  2. Spread the softened butter evenly over one side of each slice of white bread.

  3. Place one slice of bread butter side down in a skillet over medium heat.

  4. Lay the slice of American cheese on the bread, then arrange the cinnamon apple slices in an even layer on top.

  5. Cover with the second slice of bread, butter side up.

  6. Cook 2 to 3 minutes until the bottom is golden brown, then carefully flip and cook 2 to 3 minutes more until golden and the cheese has melted.

  7. Let rest 1 minute, then cut in half diagonally and 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. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

  3. Bread + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

  5. Apple + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together292 recipes

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

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