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Cinnamon Apple & Goat Cheese Crostini Recipe

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 12
Prep10 min
Cook5 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 arrange the 12 baguette slices on a baking sheet.

  2. Brush the bread slices with half of the agave nectar.

  3. In a small bowl, toss the apple slices with the remaining agave nectar and the ground cinnamon, then arrange them on the same sheet beside the bread.

  4. Bake for about 5 minutes, until the bread is lightly golden and the apple slices are tender at the edges.

  5. While the crostini cool slightly, stir the fresh thyme leaves into the goat cheese in a small bowl until well combined and spreadable.

  6. Spread a little goat cheese mixture on each toast, top with an apple slice, and serve.

By cookincanuck. 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. Apple + goat cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

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

  2. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Agave + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Wheat + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  5. Cinnamon + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, apple, agave, cinnamon, goat cheese):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Clovebetter flavor fit
  4. Thymethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, apple, agave, cinnamon, goat cheese. 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).