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DT's Beef Dip

"This dip is good for New Year's parties and Super Bowl parties. It works well with beer. Serve with chips, crackers, veggies or taco chips."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,091 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

4 cups
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Let the cream cheese soften at room temperature for about 15 minutes, then place it in a mixing bowl.

  2. Beat the cream cheese with a mixer until smooth, gradually adding the milk until the mixture is creamy and spreadable.

  3. Stir in the Beau Monde seasoning until evenly combined.

  4. Fold in the chopped green onions and the chopped dried beef until evenly distributed throughout the dip.

  5. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour so the flavors blend and the dip firms slightly.

  6. Give the dip a final stir before serving cold.

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. Onion + beeftop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

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

  2. Beef + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,758 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Cream cheese + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,395 recipes

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

  4. Cream cheese + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Cream cheese + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together168 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

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

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, beef, milk. 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).