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Farmers' Market Greens with Baked Goat Cheese Toasts

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Farmers' Market Greens with Baked Goat Cheese Toasts

Why it works: Shallot and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 450 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Farmers' Market Greens with Baked Goat Cheese Toasts

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

243Calories
7 gProtein
22 gFat
5 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Champagnenot in our table0
Saladnot in our table0
Flowernot in our table0

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. Shallot + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + chivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together580 recipes

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

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

Swap the chive

The recipe marks chive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (champagne, vinegar, shallot, pepper, olive, goat cheese, thyme):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Chivethe original
  4. Tomatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against champagne, vinegar, shallot, pepper, olive, goat cheese, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.