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Blue Bacon Stuffed Mushrooms

"Mushrooms stuffed with blue cheese, bacon, caramelized onions and garlic make a delicious appetizer!"

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Why it works: Mushroom and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 12,516 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

The recipe

6 mushrooms
Prep5 min
Cook33 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. Heat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Clean the mushrooms, pull out the stems, and finely chop the stems.

  2. Cook the bacon in a skillet over medium heat for about 6 minutes until crisp. Drain on paper towels, crumble, and pour off most of the fat, leaving a little in the pan.

  3. Add the butter to the skillet over medium heat. Add the diced onion, chopped mushroom stems, and sliced garlic and cook about 5 minutes until soft.

  4. Remove the pan from the heat. Stir in the cream cheese and blue cheese until smooth, then mix in the bread crumbs and crumbled bacon.

  5. Arrange the mushroom caps hollow side up on a baking sheet. Spoon the filling into the caps, mounding it slightly.

  6. Bake for about 20 minutes until the filling is hot and bubbling and the mushrooms are tender and lightly browned on top.

  7. Let the mushrooms rest for 3 minutes before serving.

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. Mushroom + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Cream cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together70 recipes

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

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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