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Roasted Beets with Orange and Herbed Goat Cheese

A trio of fresh herbs accents the tangy flavor of soft goat cheese. Dollops of the mixture nicely offset a salad of just-harvested beets, whose earthiness becomes even more intense when roasted in a hot oven. The beet juices are blended with tart fresh orange juice to form a colorful dressing to bring all of the tastes together.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Roasted Beets with Orange and Herbed Goat Cheese

Why it works: Garlic and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,149 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roasted Beets with Orange and Herbed Goat Cheese

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

333Calories
9 gProtein
22 gFat
27 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By williamssonoma. 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. Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chive + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, clove, pepper, goat cheese, chive, parsley):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, clove, pepper, goat cheese, chive, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.