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Fig Jam and Goat Cheese Crostini Recipe

Flavors of fall—sage and figs—pair up with tangy goat cheese for an elegant appetizer that's a perfect match for a glass of bubbly.What to buy: Fig...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and fig share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 35 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

About 20 servings as an hors d'oeuvre
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Goat cheese + figtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

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

  2. Olive + goat cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

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

  3. Olive + figtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Olive + sagetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,048 recipes

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

  5. Sage + figtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, goat cheese, fig):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, goat cheese, fig. 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).