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Apple Cinnamon Brie Quesadillas

"A simple, yummy quesadilla good for brunch or entertaining, and kid-approved! Fancy and impressive, but so easy and delicious."

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Why it works: Brie and apple work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 24 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutanol, which smells fusel, malty. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook10 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. Melt 1/2 teaspoon of the butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat.

  2. Stir together the brown sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Toss the apple slices with about half of this mixture.

  3. Spread the remaining butter lightly over one side of each tortilla. Place one tortilla butter-side down in the skillet.

  4. Layer the Brie slices and the cinnamon-sugar apple slices over half of the tortilla, leaving the edges clear. Sprinkle the remaining cinnamon-sugar over the top.

  5. Fold the empty half of the tortilla over the filling. Cook 2 to 3 minutes per side, pressing gently with a spatula, until golden and the cheese has melted.

  6. Transfer to a cutting board, rest 1 minute, then cut into wedges. Repeat with the second tortilla, adding a little more butter to the pan if needed.

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. Brie + appletop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutanol (fusel, malty).

  2. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Brie + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together161 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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