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Hot Pizza Dip

"All your favorite pizza ingredients in a hot dip made in the microwave. Serve with sliced French baguette bread."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Hot Pizza Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and mozzarella cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 137 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Hot Pizza Dip

16 servings
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

578Calories
46 gProtein
38 gFat
11 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Green Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Olive1 large (4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Pizzanot 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. Cream cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

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

  2. Mozzarella cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

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

  3. Oregano + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Cream cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together311 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, oregano, basil, mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, sauce, pepper):

  1. Rosemaryfits about as well
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

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