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Tomato and Goat's Cheese Tart

Great for lunch boxes or picnics

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and milk work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 82 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Tomato and Goat's Cheese Tart

Serves 6

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

549Calories
33 gProtein
30 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Pastrynot 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. Goat cheese + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

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

  2. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Goat cheese + eggtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together194 recipes

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

  4. Cherry tomato + milktop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Cherry tomato + eggtop 50% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (goat cheese, egg, milk):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against goat cheese, egg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.