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Beef and Blue Cheese Risotto

This rich and rib-sticking risotto is the real deal, combining bold flavours with superior homemade stock.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Red wine and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 11 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

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

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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. Red wine + blue cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Beef + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Carrot + star anisetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together117 recipes

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

  5. Beef + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the star anise

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, red wine, carrot, celery, onion, chicken, olive):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Star anisethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, red wine, carrot, celery, onion, chicken, olive. 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).