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Jalapeno Pie Mini Tarts

"These 'hot' mini cheese and jalapeno tarts are always the first to go at parties. They are quick and easy to make."

This recipe’s ingredient list has no crust or pastry, so it bakes more like a fruit dish than a pastry pie.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Jalapeno and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,885 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

24 mini tarts
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Jalapeno + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,861 recipes

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

  4. Jalapeno + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,323 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (jalapeno, pepper, cheese, egg):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Dillabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against jalapeno, pepper, cheese, egg. 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).