17 Amazing
Blue Cheese Pairings
For You To Try
Adam A
·
May 25, 2016
What goes well with Blue cheese?
After spending hours scouring recipe books and conducting tasting experiments, I've found the following flavor pairings all go well with Blue cheese. Click on any match to view its flavor matches.
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Avocado
Why this pairing works:Avocado’s fatty buttery texture is a perfect match to help round out the sharp pungent flavors of blue cheese. You often see these two in salads, toasties, and dips. You can also create a salad dressing by blending them together with lemon juice, oil, and garlic and which, thanks to Avocado’s silky texture, effortlessly clings to all of your salad’s ingredients.
E.g. Avocado and blue cheese salad.The avocado and blue cheese salad called Cob salad is probably the most famous salad to feature these two, however, it also includes a litany lot of other ingredients such as chicken, egg, bacon, tomatoes, and various greens.
A far simpler way to experience them is to scale the ingredients back. Here’s one such recipe which only requires bacon, lemon, and chopped chives.
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Bacon
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Banana
Why this pairing works:One of my favorite afternoon snacks is peanut butter and banana toasties with a sprinkling of cinnamon. I've been having them a lot lately and fancied a change. I've heard banana and blue cheese are a good match so I made a simple toasty of the two, plus some chopped walnuts and honey on the side.
I really enjoyed these two. Blue cheese is creamy and pungent. It has got a quirky flavor profile, fruity yet metallic-like, and that seems to blend nicely with banana and it's clove and vanilla flavors. It's an interesting and fun pairing and certainly grabbed my attention.
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Cabbage
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Celery
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Chicken
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Fig
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Grape
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Grapefruit
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Mushroom
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Peach
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Pear
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Pineapple
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Sage
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Squash / Pumpkin
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Walnut
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Watercress