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Hot Spinach Red Pepper Dip

"A cheesy and creamy hot dip best served in a bread bowl or spread on toasted bread."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Hot Spinach Red Pepper Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and parmesan cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 311 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Hot Spinach Red Pepper Dip

2 cups dip
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

410Calories
22 gProtein
26 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together311 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + spinachtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Spinach + parmesan cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together889 recipes

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

  4. Cream cheese + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,393 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,322 recipes

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

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

Swap the spinach

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Spinachthe original

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