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Toasts with Fresh Figs, Goat Cheese, and Pomegranate Molasses Recipe

I bought my first bottle of pomegranate molasses after hearing about how wonderful it was. I was about to have a dinner party, and I happen to have a fig tree...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Fig and pomegranate share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hydroxybutan-2-one, which smells cheesy, buttery. The science ↓

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Depends on size of baguette

Ingredients

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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. Fig + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hydroxybutan-2-one (cheesy, buttery).

  2. Fig + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

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

  3. Fig + molassestop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together317 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Pomegranate + molassestop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Goat cheese + pomegranatetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

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