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Simple Goat Cheese and Egg Toasts with Peas and Dill

Goat cheese slathered on whole grain toast, topped with an egg (fried or scrambled) and a sprinkling of fresh peas and herbs. An easy breakfast or any-time-of-day meal.

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Why it works: Goat cheese and egg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 174 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep6 min
Cook4 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By cookieandkate. 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 + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together174 recipes

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

  2. Dill + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Bread + eggtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,584 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Goat cheese + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Bread + peastop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together802 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

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