Name: Cauliflower and Gruyere Gratin
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 head Head Of Cauliflower (roughly 1 Pound Size), Cored And Cut Into Florets; 4 Tablespoons Cream Cheese; ⅔ cups Grated Gruyere Cheese, Divided; 1 Tablespoon Salt And Pepper, to taste; 1 whole Olive Oil; 1 clove Onion, Peeled And Diced; 1 teaspoon Garlic, Peeled And Minced

Why it works: Gruyere cheese and garlic work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 115 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Prep25 min

Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

1 head Head Of Cauliflower (roughly 1 Pound Size), Cored And Cut Into Florets
4 Tablespoons Cream Cheese
⅔ cups Grated Gruyere Cheese, Divided
1 Tablespoon Salt And Pepper, to taste
1 whole Olive Oil
1 clove Onion, Peeled And Diced
1 teaspoon Garlic, Peeled And Minced

Directions

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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.

Gruyere cheese + garlictop 10% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together115 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Cream cheese + gruyere cheesetop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together20 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,030 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together23,449 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Pepper + clovetop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together13,144 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cauliflower, cream cheese, gruyere cheese, pepper, olive, onion, garlic):

Thymebetter flavor fit
Parsleybetter flavor fit
Basilbetter flavor fit
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cauliflower, cream cheese, gruyere cheese, pepper, olive, onion, garlic. 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).

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