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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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Why it works: Fig and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

24 hors d'oeuvres
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Fig + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together15 recipes

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

  2. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

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

  3. Olive + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together314 recipes

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

  4. Fig + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Olive + endivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together189 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