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Spicy Roll-ups

"A quick and easy party staple! I got this recipe from my cousin's wife. It can be adapted-less or more olives and less or more hot sauce."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 910 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

The recipe

48 pieces
Prep10 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. In a bowl, beat the softened cream cheese until smooth.

  2. Stir in the minced black olives and hot pepper sauce until evenly combined.

  3. Lay the flour tortillas flat on a clean work surface.

  4. Spread the cream cheese mixture evenly over each tortilla, leaving a small border at the edge.

  5. Roll each tortilla up tightly into a log, pressing gently to seal the edge.

  6. Wrap the rolls in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour so they firm up.

  7. Unwrap the chilled rolls and slice each one into 1 inch (2.5 cm) pieces with a sharp knife.

  8. Arrange the pieces on a serving plate and serve cold.

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. Cream cheese + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together910 recipes

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

  2. Olive + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  3. Olive + saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,434 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pepper + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together49,477 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sauce + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,622 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Pepper and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 49,477 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