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Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Whipped Goat Cheese

Precooking the whole cauliflower in seasoned poaching liquid infuses it with flavor; roasting it makes it crisp; whipped goat cheese adds a rich touch.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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

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By bonappetit. 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. White wine + goat cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Olive + goat cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

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

  4. White wine + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Butter + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together183 recipes

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

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