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Kim's Chicken Dip

"This recipe will be sure to be a big hit for summer get-togethers!! Serve with corn chips or tortilla chips if desired."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,091 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

The recipe

1 1/2 cups

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chicken + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Chicken + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19,957 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  4. Cream cheese + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cream cheese + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together882 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Grapeabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, chicken, sauce, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).