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Rosemary Blue Cheese Garlic Bread

"I just wanted to put my favorite flavors together! I normally suggest fresh herbs, but with this please use already-dried. Also works well with sourdough bread."

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Why it works: Rosemary and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 36 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

1 loaf
Prep15 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. Set the oven rack about 6 inches (15 cm) from the broiler and turn the broiler to high.

  2. In a bowl, mash the softened butter with the garlic powder, onion salt and 2 tablespoons dried rosemary until smooth and evenly mixed.

  3. Lay the French bread halves cut side up on a baking sheet. Spread the garlic butter evenly over the cut surfaces, edge to edge.

  4. Arrange the sliced blue cheese over the buttered bread in an even layer, covering the surfaces.

  5. Broil for 3 to 5 minutes, watching closely, until the cheese is melted and the edges of the bread are golden brown.

  6. If using, sprinkle a little extra dried rosemary over the hot bread. Slice each half crosswise into pieces 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. Rosemary + blue cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  4. Rosemary + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,179 recipes

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

  5. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rosemary, garlic, butter, bread, blue cheese):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against rosemary, garlic, butter, bread, blue cheese. 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).