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Dos Queso Dip

"This Mexican-inspired cheese dip can be made with any kind of cheese and your favorite salsa. Regular oregano may be used in place of the more strongly-flavored Mexican variety. Serve it warm with tortilla chips."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Dos Queso Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 473 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Dos Queso Dip

6 cups
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

345Calories
27 gProtein
20 gFat
15 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mexican Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Taconot 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. Cream cheese + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + mexican oreganotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cream + cream cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Cream + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Pepper + cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 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 mexican oregano

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Mexican oreganothe original

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