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Pear and Prosciutto Crostini with Goat Cheese

Quick and easy to make, these five-ingredient pear and prosciutto goat cheese crostini are perfect for a quick lunch or your next party!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and pear share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 5
Prep10 min
Cook10 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. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Arrange the baguette or bread slices in a single layer on the sheet and drizzle or brush both sides lightly with the extra virgin olive oil.

  3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, turning once halfway, until the slices are golden and crisp. Let them cool for a few minutes.

  4. Spread a layer of goat cheese evenly over each warm crostini.

  5. Lay a piece of thin prosciutto over the cheese, folding or tearing it to fit, then top with a few thin pear slices.

  6. Serve right away while the toasts are still warm, or let them come to room temperature.

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. Goat cheese + peartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Olive + goat cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Bread + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Goat cheese + prosciuttotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

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

  5. Olive + peartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together261 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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