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Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms with Grilled Onions

"Mushrooms are stuffed with blue cheese and grilled with onion slices to make a stunning side dish for any barbeque."

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Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms with Grilled Onions

Why it works: Mushroom and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,571 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms with Grilled Onions

8 servings
Prep30 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

278Calories
10 gProtein
22 gFat
13 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15

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. Mushroom + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Mushroom + blue cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together63 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Blue cheese + olivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together329 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, blue cheese, olive):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, blue cheese, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.