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Chèvre Deviled Eggs with Asparagus Recipe

Mitch Prensky, chef-owner at Supper in Philadelphia, shared this recipe with us. Hard-boiled egg yolks are mashed with goat cheese and chives, then scooped into...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,290 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

8 to 10 servings as an appetizer
Cook45 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Egg + asparagustop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,290 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Chive + asparagustop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together164 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Mustard + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together213 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, goat cheese, lemon, chive, pepper, asparagus):

  1. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  2. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, goat cheese, lemon, chive, pepper, asparagus. 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).