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Creamy Goat's Cheese with Chive & Pomegranate

Simply plonk this in the middle of the table and let your friends get to work, with chunks of bread for scooping

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Creamy Goat's Cheese with Chive & Pomegranate

Why it works: Pomegranate and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Creamy Goat's Cheese with Chive & Pomegranate

Serves 6
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

882Calories
33 gProtein
22 gFat
135 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Seednot 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. Pomegranate + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Pomegranate + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Cheese + honeytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Cheese + white winetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the pomegranate

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, chive, honey, white wine, bread):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Pomegranatethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, chive, honey, white wine, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.