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Baked Goat’s Cheese with Hazelnut Crust & Balsamic Onions

This simple breaded cheese can be made ahead and frozen, ready to use as a starter for a dinner party with friends

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicory and onion share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 67 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep30 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Chicory + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chicory + watercresstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Hazelnut + chicorytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Cheese + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,530 recipes

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

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