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Prosciutto and Ricotta Crostini with Honey

An easy recipe for Prosciutto and Ricotta Crostini with Honey, perfect to entertain with.

By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Prosciutto and honey work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 36 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

serves 4-6 as an appetizer
Prep5 min
Cook3 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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 400°F (200°C) and arrange the baguette slices in a single layer on a baking sheet.

  2. Brush one side of each baguette slice lightly with the olive oil.

  3. Bake for 3 to 4 minutes until the edges are golden and crisp, then let the crostini cool for 2 minutes.

  4. Spread a spoonful of ricotta cheese evenly over each toasted slice.

  5. Tear the prosciutto into bite-size pieces and drape them over the ricotta.

  6. Top each crostini with a small handful of arugula.

  7. Drizzle the honey over the crostini just before serving.

  8. Serve immediately while the crostini are still crisp.

By steamykitchen. 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. Prosciutto + honeytop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together36 recipes

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

  2. Prosciutto + arugulatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Olive + ricotta cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together595 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Olive + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Olive + arugulatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the arugula

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, ricotta cheese, prosciutto, honey):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Arugulathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, ricotta cheese, prosciutto, honey. 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).