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Fresh Goat Cheese, Roasted Beet, and Walnut Tart

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes one 10-inch tart; Serves 6 to 8

Ingredients

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

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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. White wine + goat cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Olive + goat cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

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

  3. Butter + white winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  5. Butter + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, butter, white wine, egg, cream, goat cheese):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, butter, white wine, egg, cream, goat 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).