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Endive with Figs, Blue Cheese, and Pecans Recipe

Endive leaves are the perfect delivery device for mouthfuls of sweet roasted figs, crunchy candied pecans, and pungent, salty blue cheese. Easy, too!Game plan...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Endive with Figs, Blue Cheese, and Pecans Recipe

Why it works: Olive and endive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Endive with Figs, Blue Cheese, and Pecans Recipe

24 hors d'oeuvres
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

485Calories
7 gProtein
36 gFat
38 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Fig1 medium (50g)37
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Endivenot 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. Olive + endivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

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

  2. Fig + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together223 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Butter + blue cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Pepper + endivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together308 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, maple syrup, fig, olive, pepper, blue cheese):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, maple syrup, fig, olive, pepper, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.