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Blue Cheese Pumpkin Polenta

Presumed you have roasted pumpkin, this is a real quicky for midweek dinner. And do not forget about cheerful orange color - it will cheer you up on Monday evening.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pumpkin and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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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. Pumpkin + blue cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14 recipes

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

  2. Milk + blue cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together119 recipes

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

  3. Milk + pumpkintop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Blue cheese + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together370 recipes

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

  5. Milk + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26,983 recipes

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

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