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Grilled Endive Recipe with Pistachios, Dried Cherries & Feta Cheese

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Why it works: Endive and feta cheese work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Whisk together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, minced rosemary, salt and ground pepper in a small bowl to make a dressing.

  2. Heat a grill or grill pan over medium-high heat until hot, about 5 minutes.

  3. Brush the cut sides of the endive halves with about half of the dressing.

  4. Place the endive halves cut side down on the grill and cook until nicely charred, about 3 to 4 minutes.

  5. Turn the endive over and grill until just tender, about 2 to 3 minutes more.

  6. Arrange the grilled endive on a serving platter and drizzle with the remaining dressing.

  7. Scatter the chopped pistachios, dried cherries and crumbled feta over the endive and serve warm.

By cookincanuck. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Endive + feta cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8 recipes

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

  2. Olive + feta cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

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

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Rosemary + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the rosemary

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, vinegar, garlic, pepper, endive, pistachio, feta cheese):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Rosemarythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, vinegar, garlic, pepper, endive, pistachio, feta cheese. 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).