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Chèvre-Olive-Parsley Spread Recipe

Try this Frenchified spread the next time you want to channel your inner Euro. It's a great accompaniment to roasted chicken, fresh-cut cucumber, or roasted beets...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chèvre-Olive-Parsley Spread Recipe

Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chèvre-Olive-Parsley Spread Recipe

1/2 cup

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

126Calories
7 gProtein
9 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Goat cheese + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 recipes

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

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (goat cheese, lemon, pepper, olive):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Basilfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Rosemaryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against goat cheese, lemon, pepper, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.