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Breakfast Bagels with Spicy Cream Cheese and Anahiem Chili Scrambled Eggs

The best breakfast sandwich!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 479 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By tastykitchen. 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. Cream cheese + cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together479 recipes

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

  2. Yogurt + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together873 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Yogurt + cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together875 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Coconut + cream cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Coconut + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, yogurt, cream cheese, sauce, wheat, bagel, cheese):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Grapeabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, yogurt, cream cheese, sauce, wheat, bagel, cheese. 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).