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Chipotle Chile and Blue Cheese Sauce

"Chipotle peppers add deep smoky flavor to this rich blue cheese and cream sauce. It's delicious spooned over a grilled steak. Try it with fresh pasta or drizzled over a gourmet burger, too!"

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Chipotle Chile and Blue Cheese Sauce

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Chipotle Chile and Blue Cheese Sauce

6 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

166Calories
7 gProtein
14 gFat
4 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Saucenot in our table0

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 + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pepper + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Blue cheese + chivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Blue cheese + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together370 recipes

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

  5. Blue cheese + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together76 recipes

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

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

Swap the chive

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Chivethe original

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