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Baked Stuffed Aubergine with Walnut and Roquefort

Blue cheese and walnuts add a festive note to this delicious veggie main. The dish can be mostly made it in advance - just add the topping and reheat before serving.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and oregano share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 53 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Walnut + oreganotop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Rosemary + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together344 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Rosemary + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,340 recipes

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

  4. Thyme + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together791 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

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 (garlic, tomato, rosemary, thyme, olive, pepper, walnut):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, tomato, rosemary, thyme, olive, pepper, walnut. 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).