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Red Bibb Lettuce Cups with Figs and Goat Cheese

A delicious and healthy appetizer.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and goat cheese work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 37 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep8 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Rinse the lettuce leaves under cold water, then pat them completely dry with a clean towel and set them aside on a serving plate.

  2. Rinse the figs, trim off the stems, and cut each fig into wedges.

  3. Crumble the goat cheese into small pieces in a small bowl. If you prefer, use feta instead, which is an optional swap.

  4. Spoon the crumbled goat cheese evenly into the center of each lettuce leaf.

  5. Arrange the fig wedges over the cheese in each lettuce cup.

  6. Drizzle the honey evenly over the figs and cheese just before serving so the lettuce stays crisp.

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

  1. Lettuce + goat cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Fig + honeytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Fig + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

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

  4. Honey + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

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

  5. Lettuce + figtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

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

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