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Sun-Dried Tomato Goat Cheese Spread

"Tangy young goat cheese is the base for this savory spread. Combined with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, and fresh parsley. This simple spread is excellent served with a sliced baguette and a glass of red wine."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 197 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

1 cup
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Place the soft goat cheese in a small bowl and mash with a fork until smooth and spreadable.

  2. Add the chopped sun-dried tomatoes, minced garlic and chopped fresh parsley to the bowl.

  3. Stir everything together until the tomatoes and herbs are evenly distributed through the cheese.

  4. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so the flavors can blend.

  5. Let the spread sit at room temperature for about 10 minutes before serving so it softens slightly.

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. Goat cheese + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,294 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,396 recipes

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

  5. Goat cheese + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together290 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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 (goat cheese, tomato, garlic):

  1. Basilbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against goat cheese, tomato, garlic. 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).