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Apple Goat Cheese Bruschetta

"If you like sweet and savory, this one is for you. Easy to make and a beautiful presentation."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and apple share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

8 slices
Prep10 min
Cook2 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches (15 cm) from the heat source.

  2. Arrange the 8 thin slices of French bread on a baking sheet and broil for 1 to 2 minutes per side, until lightly toasted.

  3. In a small bowl, gently combine the chopped Fuji apple, chopped fresh thyme, chopped fresh oregano, and coarse ground black pepper.

  4. Crumble the goat cheese into the bowl and fold gently so the apple and herbs are evenly distributed without mashing the cheese.

  5. Spoon the apple and goat cheese mixture evenly over the warm toasted bread slices.

  6. Serve immediately while the bread is still warm.

By allrecipes. 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. Goat cheese + appletop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

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

  2. Thyme + oreganotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together791 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Thyme + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Oregano + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Goat cheese + thymetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together111 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (goat cheese, apple, thyme, pepper, bread):

  1. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  2. Sagebetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against goat cheese, apple, thyme, pepper, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).