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Cheese Stuffed Olives

"Will definitely impress others! To fill the olives, use a pastry bag or plastic baggie with the corner cut out. What works best is a cookie press. Also, you can use bottled roasted garlic, but I like to make my own."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Cheese Stuffed Olives

Why it works: Cream cheese and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 44 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cheese Stuffed Olives

5 servings
Prep45 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

327Calories
18 gProtein
26 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Cream cheese + goat cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

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

  2. Goat cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together311 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Basil + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, goat cheese, parmesan cheese, basil, pepper, olive):

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Oreganofits about as well
  3. Rosemaryfits about as well
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, goat cheese, parmesan cheese, basil, pepper, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.