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Cream Cheese and Chive Scramble with Prosciutto Recipe

Thin slices of prosciutto wrapped around creamy scrambled eggs make up this simple, yet fancy-looking, breakfast dish. Try it for Father's Day or any other special...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Cream Cheese and Chive Scramble with Prosciutto Recipe

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cream Cheese and Chive Scramble with Prosciutto Recipe

4 servings
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

435Calories
16 gProtein
35 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Pepper + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Egg + prosciuttotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together208 recipes

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

  5. Chive + cream cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together204 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, milk, butter, cream cheese, prosciutto):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Chivethe original
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

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