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Baby Greens with Artisinal Cheeses and Charcuterie

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Baby Greens with Artisinal Cheeses and Charcuterie

Why it works: Goat cheese and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Baby Greens with Artisinal Cheeses and Charcuterie

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

557Calories
20 gProtein
41 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Quincenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By epicurious. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Goat cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

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

  2. Olive + goat cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 recipes

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

  3. Olive + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. White wine + shallottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together881 recipes

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

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

Swap the quince

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, white wine, vinegar, shallot, pepper, goat cheese, blue cheese):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Quincethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, white wine, vinegar, shallot, pepper, goat cheese, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.