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Blue Cheesy Grits

"Grits are a staple on the Southern table for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and can be served sweet or savory. Adding blue cheese turns this ordinary side dish into something really special. If you love blue cheese or grits half as much as I do, you'll love this recipe! Please follow the liquid and cooking time indicated on your package, using half chicken stock, half milk proportionally as your liquid. Quick, Instant and Regular grits can all be used by adjusting the cooking time."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,839 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep5 min
Cook10 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. Bring the chicken broth and milk to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.

  2. Whisk in the quick-cooking grits and garlic powder, then reduce heat to low.

  3. Cook, stirring often, for about 5 minutes until the grits are thick and tender.

  4. Remove from heat and stir in the crumbled blue cheese until melted and evenly mixed.

  5. Season with salt and pepper to taste, then serve warm.

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. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Chicken + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Milk + blue cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together119 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + blue cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together178 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, milk, blue cheese, pepper):

  1. Celerybetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Garlicthe original
  4. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, milk, blue cheese, pepper. 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).