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Blue Cheese and Chive Compound Butter Recipe

A recipe for compound butter with blue cheese and chives for slathering on steak, corn, baked potatoes, or almost anything.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Blue Cheese and Chive Compound Butter Recipe

Why it works: Butter and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 232 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Blue Cheese and Chive Compound Butter Recipe

1 stick (about 6 to 8 servings)
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

209Calories
6 gProtein
20 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + blue cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together232 recipes

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

  2. Chive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Blue cheese + chivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together51 recipes

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

  4. Blue cheese + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together370 recipes

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

  5. Butter + chivetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, blue cheese, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Chivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, blue cheese, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.