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Blue Cheese and Garlic Bread

"A friend showed this to me years ago, and I added and changed amounts around to fit my taste. This goes great with any pasta dish, steak, or even seafood. If stored in a plastic bag, either open bag and microwave with a cup of water in microwave, or place 1 tablespoon of water in bag to ensure moist bread after heating."

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Why it works: Garlic and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 220 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

1 loaf
Prep15 min
Cook10 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. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Slice the French bread loaf in half lengthwise and place the halves cut side up on a baking sheet.

  2. Mix half of the butter with half of the garlic powder until smooth, then spread it evenly over the cut sides of both bread halves.

  3. Stir the remaining butter and remaining garlic powder into the blue cheese salad dressing until blended.

  4. Spread the blue cheese mixture over the bread, covering the garlic butter layer.

  5. Sprinkle half of the shredded mozzarella and half of the grated Parmesan over the bread.

  6. Bake for 8 minutes until the bread is hot and the cheese has started to melt.

  7. Scatter the remaining mozzarella and remaining Parmesan over the bread and bake 2 more minutes until golden and bubbling.

  8. Let the bread rest for 1 minute, then cut into slices 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. Garlic + blue cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together220 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

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