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Chèvre Truffles Recipe

A truffle recipes that uses goat cheese and maple syrup instead of chocolate ganache.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Chèvre Truffles Recipe

Why it works: Chocolate and cocoa work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Chèvre Truffles Recipe

You’ll make about eighteen truffles, who knows how many will make it out of the kitchen?

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

310Calories
8 gProtein
17 gFat
31 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Chocolate + cocoatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Chocolate + maple syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Goat cheese + maple syruptop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chocolate + goat cheesetop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4 recipes

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

  5. Cocoa + goat cheesetop 38% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1 recipe

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

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

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, goat cheese, maple syrup):

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, goat cheese, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.