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Blue Cheese and Pear Tartlets

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By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and pear share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 40 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

15 servings
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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 350°F (175°C). Arrange the mini phyllo tart shells on a baking sheet.

  2. Bake the empty shells for 8 minutes until crisp and lightly golden. Let them cool on the sheet.

  3. Cut the prepared pear into small, even dice.

  4. In a bowl, mash the blue cheese with the light cream until mostly smooth. Season with black pepper to taste.

  5. Fold the diced pear into the blue cheese mixture until evenly combined.

  6. Spoon the filling into the cooled tart shells, dividing it evenly among them.

  7. Bake the filled tartlets for 10 minutes until the filling is warmed through and just beginning to soften.

  8. Cool the tartlets for 5 minutes before serving. Serve warm or at room temperature.

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 + peartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Blue cheese + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together370 recipes

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

  3. Blue cheese + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together76 recipes

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

  4. Cream + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together21,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Pear + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together301 recipes

    Shared aroma: butanol (wine).

Cream and pepper share little aroma chemistry, yet 21,446 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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