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Fried Mushrooms with Feta Cheese Sauce

"This is the recipe I used in a cooking competition that had to use mushrooms and feta cheese. I hope you enjoy it as much as the judges of the competition did!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Fried Mushrooms with Feta Cheese Sauce

Why it works: Mushroom and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fried Mushrooms with Feta Cheese Sauce

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

807Calories
31 gProtein
30 gFat
104 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Saucenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Mushroom + feta cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,633 recipes

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

  5. Feta cheese + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together555 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, bread, egg, sauce, feta cheese):

  1. Plumfits about as well
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Pumpkinfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, bread, egg, sauce, feta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.