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Crunchy Wasabi Cheese Balls

"Soothing cream cheese provides just the right relief from the fire of the wasabi pea!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Crunchy Wasabi Cheese Balls

Why it works: Wasabi and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Crunchy Wasabi Cheese Balls

38 balls
Prep25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

177Calories
7 gProtein
10 gFat
15 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
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Wasabinot 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. Wasabi + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Peas + chivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together227 recipes

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

  3. Wasabi + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  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 peas

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

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

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