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Nectarines with Arugula and Burrata Cheese

Creamy burrata cheese meets sweet nectarines in this summer-fresh starter that takes just minutes to assemble. Let guests help themselves, layering the ingredients on crusty bread.

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Why it works: Burrata and cheese work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 28 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6.

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Burrata + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together28 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Olive + breadtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Cheese + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,530 recipes

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

  5. Olive + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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