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Hot Crab Dip

"This delicious, addictive crab dip will have your family begging for more. Serve as an appetizer with onion or garlic crackers."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Hot Crab Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and cheddar cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 467 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Hot Crab Dip

5 cups
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

319Calories
17 gProtein
25 gFat
9 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8

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 + cheddar cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together467 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together881 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Cheddar cheese + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together838 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. Lemon + saucetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Pineapplefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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