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Best Farmers' Market Pimento Cheese

"This is a recipe that has been recreated from an award-winning recipe for pimento cheese found at our local farmers' market. You won't be disappointed. It's even better if it sits for a day in the refrigerator to allow the flavors to blend. "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Best Farmers' Market Pimento Cheese

Why it works: Cheddar cheese and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,669 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Best Farmers' Market Pimento Cheese

1 cup
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

288Calories
17 gProtein
15 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Pimentonot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cheddar cheese + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,669 recipes

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

  2. Onion + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cheddar cheese + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together838 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Onion and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,474 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheddar cheese, sauce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheddar cheese, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.