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Paneer Cheese and Fig Skewers with Bean Dip

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and kidney beans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 76 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

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. Cheese + kidney beanstop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together76 recipes

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

  2. Olive + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Cheese + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,530 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + figtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together85 recipes

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

  5. Fig + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (paneer, cheese, fig, olive, parsley):

  1. Peasbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against paneer, cheese, fig, olive, parsley. 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).