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Herbed Egg, Turkey and Goat Cheese Cups

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Why it works: Egg and goat cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 174 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

(4 servings (2 cups per serving)
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Lightly coat the 8 cups of a muffin tin with cooking spray.

  2. Press one slice of roasted turkey breast into each cup so it lines the sides and bottom, leaving the centers open.

  3. Crack one egg into each turkey-lined cup.

  4. Stir together the dried parsley, dried thyme, dried dill, dried rosemary, kosher salt and pepper. Sprinkle the mixture evenly over the eggs.

  5. Crumble the goat cheese over the tops of the cups.

  6. Bake for about 10 minutes, until the egg whites are set and opaque and the eggs reach 160°F (71°C). Let cool for a few minutes before lifting the cups out of the tin.

By backtoherroots. 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. Egg + goat cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together174 recipes

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

  2. Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Parsley + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together668 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).

  4. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsley, thyme, rosemary, pepper, turkey, egg, goat cheese):

  1. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  2. Sagebetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, thyme, rosemary, pepper, turkey, egg, goat cheese. 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).