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Beef and Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms

"Ground beef, blue cheese, and chives make a savory filling for stuffed mushrooms that are easy to make and will be a favorite appetizer at your next get-together."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 75 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

36 stuffed mushrooms
Prep30 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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 line a baking sheet with parchment. Remove the stems from the mushrooms and finely chop the stems.

  2. Cook the ground beef in a skillet over medium-high heat, breaking it up, for about 5 minutes until no pink remains and it reaches 160°F (71°C). Drain off excess fat.

  3. Add the chopped mushroom stems to the skillet and cook for 2 minutes until softened.

  4. Take the skillet off the heat and stir in the salt, steak seasoning blend, crumbled blue cheese, soft whole wheat bread crumbs and minced chives until evenly mixed.

  5. Arrange the mushroom caps on the baking sheet, stem side up, and spoon the beef filling evenly into each one, mounding it slightly.

  6. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until the mushrooms are tender and the filling is hot and the cheese has softened.

  7. Sprinkle with the optional minced fresh chives just before serving.

By allrecipes. 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. Beef + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together75 recipes

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

  2. Beef + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Mushroom + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together63 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + breadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,535 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Beef + wheattop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chive

The recipe marks chive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, mushroom, blue cheese, wheat, bread):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Chivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, mushroom, blue cheese, wheat, bread. 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).