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Jalapeno Chicken Dip

"This is so easy! People are always amazed when I give them the recipe. You can make it as spicy as you want or not at all."

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Jalapeno Chicken Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,087 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Jalapeno Chicken Dip

15 servings
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

319Calories
33 gProtein
19 gFat
3 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Jalapeno1 pepper (14g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Soupnot 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.

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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 + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Cream cheese + jalapenotop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Chicken + cream cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Chicken + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Chicken + jalapenotop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together648 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

Swap the jalapeno

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

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