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Creamy Cheese Wontons

"This is a delicious and easy appetizer. Cream cheese, feta, and fresh herbs. I bring it to almost every get-together, and they are a hit! Use flavored cream cheese and feta for extra flavor. Use your favorite hot sauce as a dip to give them some edge!"

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Why it works: Cream cheese and wonton wrapper work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 32 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

96 wontons
Prep45 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a bowl, beat the softened cream cheese until smooth, then mix in the crumbled feta, shredded carrot, garlic powder, egg yolk, basil, and parsley if using.

  2. Cover the filling and refrigerate for 30 minutes so it firms up enough to hold its shape.

  3. Place a small spoonful of filling in the center of each wonton wrapper.

  4. Dampen the edges with a little water, then fold into triangles or squares, pressing out air and sealing the edges firmly.

  5. Bring a pan of water to a boil and set a steamer basket over it. Arrange the wontons in a single layer without crowding.

  6. Cover and steam for 8 to 10 minutes, until the wrappers look translucent and the filling reaches 165°F (74°C) in the center.

  7. Pour the soy sauce into a small bowl for dipping while the wontons steam.

  8. Serve the wontons hot with the soy sauce for dipping.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream cheese + wonton wrappertop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Cream cheese + feta cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together64 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Basil + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Carrot + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,112 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, feta cheese, carrot, garlic, egg, basil, wonton wrapper):

  1. Oreganoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Dillabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, feta cheese, carrot, garlic, egg, basil, wonton wrapper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).