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Heavenly Shrimp Dip

"This shrimp and cream cheese dip is easy to prepare and always popular. For best results, serve the cream cheese at room temperature and the cocktail sauce well chilled."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Heavenly Shrimp Dip

Why it works: Shrimp and lime work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Heavenly Shrimp Dip

10 to 15 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

664Calories
39 gProtein
12 gFat
100 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Shrimp100g cooked99
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cocktailnot in our table0
Saucenot 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. Shrimp + limetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together808 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Cream cheese + shrimptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together183 recipes

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

  3. Sauce + shrimptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,423 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Cream cheese + saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together461 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  5. Sauce + limetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lime

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Mangofits about as well
  4. Limethe original

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