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Fig, Cream Cheese and Mint Tart

This recipe is a real stunner and a snappy one to prepare. Serve with a simple rocket or spinach salad and a glass of a sweet wine such as Asti.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and cream cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,087 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8-10
Prep1 hr
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, 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. Cream + cream cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Honey + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Cream cheese + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together172 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter, egg, cream, cream cheese, honey, fig):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  3. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Pistachiothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, egg, cream, cream cheese, honey, fig. 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).