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Eggplant and Goat Cheese Sandwiches Recipe

This is a great side dish which I love to make. It is easy quick and healthy. Eggplant some good cheese and pan sauteed. What could be better.Having a garden...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and egg 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

Serves 8

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Goat cheese + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together174 recipes

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

  2. Goat cheese + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Eggplant + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together852 recipes

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

  4. Bread + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Eggplant + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (eggplant, pepper, goat cheese, bread, egg, olive):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Chivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against eggplant, pepper, goat cheese, bread, egg, olive. 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).