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Peppery Goat's Cheese with SunBlush Salad

Serve this quick salad with warm crusty bread and delight your friends from Lesley Waters

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Peppery Goat's Cheese with SunBlush Salad

Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,539 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Peppery Goat's Cheese with SunBlush Salad

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

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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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Cheese + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,802 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  5. Cheese + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,896 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tomato

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

  1. Mustardabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Tomatothe original
  3. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, olive, vinegar. 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).