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Blue Cheese Beef Wellington Recipe

I don't like pate but I really loved the idea of beef wellington so I found a recipe that was similar on Epicurious that used blue cheese as a topping for filet...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 75 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Beef + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together75 recipes

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

  2. Beef + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Mushroom + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,960 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Mushroom + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together63 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 garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, mushroom, shallot, egg, blue cheese):

  1. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Pepperabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, mushroom, shallot, egg, blue cheese. 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).