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Herbed Goat Cheese Jalapeño Poppers Recipe

A blend of fresh herbs, lemon zest, and goat cheese that even the biggest food snob will enjoy.This recipe was featured as part of our Jalapeño Popper Recipes...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Herbed Goat Cheese Jalapeño Poppers Recipe

Why it works: Cream cheese and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 44 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Herbed Goat Cheese Jalapeño Poppers Recipe

4 to 6 servings as an appetizer

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

225Calories
9 gProtein
19 gFat
9 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)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. Cream cheese + goat cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Parsley + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cream cheese, goat cheese, parsley, garlic, lemon):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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