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Asparagus Appetizers

"A wonderful appetizer to have on hand that can be made ahead of time, frozen, and used as needed."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and asparagus share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 11 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

40 pieces
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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 oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Bring a pan of boiling water to a boil, add the asparagus spears and cook for 2 minutes, then drain and pat dry.

  3. Beat the blue cheese and cream cheese together in a bowl until smooth and spreadable, about 3 minutes.

  4. Lay the bread slices flat and remove the crusts. Spread a thin layer of the cheese mixture over each slice.

  5. Place one asparagus spear near the edge of each bread slice and roll up tightly. Brush the seam with the beaten egg.

  6. Melt the butter and brush it over the rolls. Place seam side down on the baking sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until golden and the egg is set. Cut each roll in half to serve 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. Blue cheese + asparagustop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Blue cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together70 recipes

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

  3. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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