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Caramelized Onion and Blue Cheese Orzo

"Rissoni, also known as semi di melone, or any other short soup pasta can be used for this dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 61 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 + cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together61 recipes

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

  2. Pasta + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Butter + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

  4. Spinach + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, butter, olive, onion, blue cheese, cheese, pepper):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, butter, olive, onion, blue cheese, 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).