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Summery Greens & Goat's Cheese Crostini

Bite-sized canapés, ideal for a wedding or celebration

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Summery Greens & Goat's Cheese Crostini

Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Summery Greens & Goat's Cheese Crostini

Serves 20
Prep30 min
Cook4 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

305Calories
11 gProtein
23 gFat
14 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Broad Beannot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Beans + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Beans + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,935 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Beans + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together908 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Clove + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together576 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the mint

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

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Rosemaryfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Mintthe original

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