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Mushroom & Goats Cheese Parcel

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,014 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 6 parcels

Ingredients

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

  • For the mushroom parcel

Directions

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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. Mushroom + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,014 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, garlic, butter, mushroom, spinach, pepper):

  1. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  4. Chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, garlic, butter, mushroom, spinach, pepper. 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).