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Savory Pastrami and Cheese Pie Recipe

This savory pie recipe has a rye and caraway seed crust and is stuffed with pastrami, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, and Swiss cheese mixed with a mustardy sauce.

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Why it works: Butter and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,955 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

1 (9-1/2-inch) pie (about 8 servings)
Cook4 hr

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

  2. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

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

  3. Rye + carawaytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,303 recipes

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

  5. Flour + carawaytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rye, flour, caraway, pepper, butter, potato, onion):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Chivebetter flavor fit
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rye, flour, caraway, pepper, butter, potato, onion. 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).