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Fig & Blue Cheese Tart

This extra special tart with crumbly walnut pastry makes a fabulous vegetarian dinner

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and fig 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

Serves 6 - 8
Prep40 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood. 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. Blue cheese + figtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together15 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Walnut + figtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together373 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter, walnut, egg, shallot, cream, blue cheese):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  4. Thymethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, walnut, egg, shallot, cream, blue 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).