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Blue Cheese Cole Slaw

"This crunchy slaw bursts with flavor. Shredded cole slaw mix is perked up by the delicious pairing of red grapes and a tangy, blue cheese speckled dressing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 37 recipes mention both. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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. In a small bowl, whisk the mayonnaise, Dijon-style mustard, white sugar and cider vinegar until smooth.

  2. Fold the crumbled blue cheese into the dressing so it is evenly distributed.

  3. In a large bowl, combine the shredded coleslaw mix and shredded carrot.

  4. Add the halved seedless red grapes to the cabbage mixture.

  5. Pour the dressing over the slaw and toss well until every piece is coated.

  6. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before serving so the flavors blend and the slaw softens slightly, then serve cold.

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. Grape + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Mustard + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Grape + cidertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together178 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexan-1-ol (green, grassy).

  4. Cider + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together402 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  5. Grape + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together579 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-sec-butyl-2-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

Mustard and vinegar share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, mustard, blue cheese, sugar, cider, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, mustard, blue cheese, sugar, cider, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).