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Cheese Filled Egg Rolls

This egg roll recipe is a keeper! No, it’s not your traditional egg roll. This one is filled with gooey melted cheese. Perfect game day eats!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Cheese Filled Egg Rolls

Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cheese Filled Egg Rolls

Serves 24
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

392Calories
17 gProtein
27 gFat
26 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Egg Roll1 large egg (50g)78
Corn Oil1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Corn + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Mozzarella cheese + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,773 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 clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, mozzarella cheese, corn, tomato, sauce, olive, garlic):

  1. Basilfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, mozzarella cheese, corn, tomato, sauce, olive, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.