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Blue Cheese Mousse

"Blue cheese mousse is a great cracker topper or vegetable dip. Use a pastry bag with a round tip and pipe onto your favorite cracker. You can top with favorite vegetables sliced thin."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Blue Cheese Mousse

Why it works: Blue cheese and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Blue Cheese Mousse

8 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

256Calories
8 gProtein
24 gFat
4 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Blue cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

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

  3. Blue cheese + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together370 recipes

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

  4. Blue cheese + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together76 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Pepper and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 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