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Baked Spinach & Feta Rounds

Light Cretian appetizer that’s super easy to make and so much fun to eat! They were one of my Yia-Yia’s favorites.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and feta cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 104 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep8 min
Cook12 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 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. Milk + feta cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together104 recipes

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

  2. Feta cheese + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

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

  3. Spinach + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together374 recipes

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

  4. Onion + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Spinach + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, egg, milk, pepper, feta cheese, bread, olive):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, egg, milk, pepper, feta cheese, bread, olive. 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).