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Michel Roux Jr's Hot Pears with Roquefort and Walnuts Recipe

Pears, like apples, go well with lots of cheese because of their sweet and sour taste. This recipe could be eaten as a starter or a cheese course.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and roquefort cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

2 people
Prep15 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Pear + roquefort cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Pear + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Onion + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,463 recipes

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

  4. Roquefort cheese + walnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

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

  5. Walnut + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,035 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pear, roquefort cheese, walnut, pepper):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pear, roquefort cheese, walnut, pepper. 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).