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Roasted Blueberry Tart

Smooth mascarpone cheese is blended with tangy goat cheese and topped with slow roasted blueberries for this simple yet elegant dessert!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Roasted Blueberry Tart

Why it works: Goat cheese and cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 79 recipes. Both carry 4-ethyloctanoic acid, which smells goaty, mutton. The science ↓

Roasted Blueberry Tart

Serves 12
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

482Calories
16 gProtein
31 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mascarpone2 tbsp (28g)120
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Pastrynot in our table0

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Goat cheese + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyloctanoic acid (goaty, mutton).

  2. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Goat cheese + basiltop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together138 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Vanilla + basiltop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  5. Cheese + basiltop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together685 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, sugar, goat cheese, cheese):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Peppermintfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, sugar, goat cheese, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.