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Grilled Vegetables with Mixed Greens and Blue Cheese Dressing

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and blue cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 314 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

The recipe

4 main-course servings

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Olive + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together314 recipes

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

  2. Vinegar + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Olive + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Red wine + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Pepper + fenneltop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,216 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

Vinegar and mustard share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (red wine, vinegar, mustard, olive, blue cheese, pepper, potato):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against red wine, vinegar, mustard, olive, blue cheese, pepper, potato. 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).