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Charred Pear Sorbet with Goat Cheese

This unusial charred pear dessert is a play on flavors--savory alongside sweet--and textures.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and pear share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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

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By bonappetit. 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. Goat cheese + peartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Pear + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Egg + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122,252 recipes

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

  4. Goat cheese + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Pear + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together519 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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