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Cream Cheese and Smoked Beef

"May be served in a bowl or... I like to slice the top of a green bell pepper off, clean the seeds out, then scoop in the cream cheese mixture. Serve with crackers around it. It looks so pretty. You can slice the green pepper up, and also eat it with the spread. If you prefer, you can also make this with turkey or ham."

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Cream Cheese and Smoked Beef

Why it works: Chive and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,149 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cream Cheese and Smoked Beef

4 to 8 servings
Prep1 hr 5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

366Calories
28 gProtein
25 gFat
6 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
Beef100g cooked250
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salad Dressingnot 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.

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. Chive + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Chive + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chive + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together304 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cream cheese + chivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together204 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, chive, garlic, beef):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Coconutfits about as well

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