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Goat Cheese Toasts with Walnuts, Honey and Thyme

Dripping with honey and sprinkled with fresh thyme, cracked pepper and sea salt, these warm, crunchy toasts make a delicious breakfast, after-school treat or lunch when matched with a handful of salad greens. It’s amazing how something so simple, and a tad messy, can be so unbelievably good.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and honey share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 98 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Goat cheese + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

  3. Goat cheese + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together67 recipes

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

  4. Goat cheese + thymetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together111 recipes

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

  5. Goat cheese + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together466 recipes

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

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