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Savoury Cheesecake

Try these individual savoury cheesecakes as a quick and easy starter recipe. They can be prepared ahead of time, too.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and cottage cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Savoury Cheesecake

Makes 4
Prep2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

662Calories
43 gProtein
40 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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 bbcfood. 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. Cream cheese + cottage cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Butter + cottage cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Lemon + cherry tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pumpkin, cream cheese, cottage cheese, lemon, ham):

  1. Pineapplefits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pumpkin, cream cheese, cottage cheese, lemon, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.