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Golden Dough Balls with Cheese and Herbs

Dough balls are readily available in supermarkets and make an excellent base for hot canapés.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Golden Dough Balls with Cheese and Herbs

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Golden Dough Balls with Cheese and Herbs

Makes 32 canapés
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

206Calories
4 gProtein
11 gFat
28 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcfood. 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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Chive + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pepper + mangotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Pepper + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cream cheese + chivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together204 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 mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, pepper, chive, parsley):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, pepper, chive, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.