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Creamy Cucumber Gelatin Salad

"This delicious gelatin salad is great for Christmas because of it's green color but so refreshing to eat on a hot summer evening. Just a little cucumber makes it not too overwhelming. I prefer using salad dressing but you can substitute mayonnaise. The longer it sits in the refrigerator the better it is."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Creamy Cucumber Gelatin Salad

Why it works: Cucumber and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 530 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Creamy Cucumber Gelatin Salad

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

174Calories
4 gProtein
10 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Waternot in our table0
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. Cucumber + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Lime + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together106 recipes

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

  3. Lime + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Dill + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,639 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, cream cheese, cucumber, dill):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Broccolifits better
  4. Onionthe original

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