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Buffalo Chicken Panini with Blue Cheese-Celery Slaw

Mugs of ice-cold beer are the perfect accompaniment to these hearty chicken sandwiches.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and celery work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 90 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Blue cheese + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together90 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,467 recipes

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

  3. Sauce + buttermilktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Red wine + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 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 sriracha

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, lemon, butter, buttermilk, blue cheese, red wine, vinegar):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Pepperbetter flavor fit
  3. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  4. Srirachathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, lemon, butter, buttermilk, blue cheese, red wine, vinegar. 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).