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Fontina, Apricot and Chocolate Grilled Cheese

This grilled cheese sandwich is the perfect blend of sweet and savory. It is filled with thick slices of fontina cheese, rich chocolate spread and sweet apricot jam!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and apricot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 65 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook8 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. Spread the butter evenly over one side of each bread slice.

  2. Turn the bread over and spread the apricot jam on the unbuttered sides of half the slices.

  3. Spread the chocolate spread over the unbuttered sides of the remaining slices.

  4. Layer the fontina slices over the jam-covered slices, then top each with a chocolate-spread slice, buttered sides facing out.

  5. Heat a skillet over medium-low heat and cook the sandwiches for about 3 to 4 minutes until the bottoms are golden.

  6. Flip the sandwiches and cook for another 3 to 4 minutes until golden and the cheese has melted. Cut in half and serve warm.

By tastykitchen. 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. Cheese + apricottop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together65 recipes

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

  3. Bread + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,130 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. Butter + apricottop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,456 recipes

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

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