Skip to main content

Warm Goat Cheese Sandwiches

"Basil pesto, sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese intermingle to produce a savory, colorful, EASY vegetarian sandwich. Wonderful served with seedless purple grapes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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

4 servings
Prep20 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. Put the sun-dried tomatoes in a bowl, cover with boiling water and let soak for about 10 minutes until soft. Drain, pat dry and chop finely.

  2. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  3. In a bowl, mix the softened goat cheese, basil pesto and chopped sun-dried tomatoes until evenly combined.

  4. Spread the mixture generously inside the four pita halves, filling each pocket.

  5. Place the filled pita halves on the baking sheet and warm in the oven for about 5 minutes, until the cheese is soft and warmed through.

  6. Serve the sandwiches immediately while warm.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Basil + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Tomato + pita breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Goat cheese + basiltop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together138 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Basil + pita breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (goat cheese, tomato, pita bread):

  1. Jalapenobetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Basilthe original

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