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Mediterranean Jalapeño Poppers Recipe

With feta, olives, and sun-dried tomatoes. For added salty flavor in your poppers, think capers or even anchovies.This recipe was featured as part of our Jalape...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Mediterranean Jalapeño Poppers Recipe

Why it works: Cream cheese and feta cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 64 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Mediterranean Jalapeño Poppers Recipe

4 to 6 servings as an appetizer

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

244Calories
10 gProtein
20 gFat
8 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
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. Cream cheese + feta cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together64 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Feta cheese + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,482 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  5. Feta cheese + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together828 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cream cheese, feta cheese, olive):

  1. Tomatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Spinachfits less well
  4. Cucumberfits less well

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