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Manchego Cheese Triangles with Quince Preserve

The perfect party snack

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 2 ingredients
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Manchego Cheese Triangles with Quince Preserve

Why it works: Manchego and cheese work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 93 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Manchego Cheese Triangles with Quince Preserve

Serves 10-12 with other dishes

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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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Manchego + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

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

  2. Manchego + quincetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Cheese + quincetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Swap the quince

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (manchego, cheese):

  1. Applefits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Quincethe original

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