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Laura's Dip

"I got this blue cheese dip recipe from a friend of my sister's. Everyone loves it, even kids. Serve it with crackers and veggies. "

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Laura's Dip

Why it works: Cottage cheese and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Laura's Dip

4 cups
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

346Calories
36 gProtein
13 gFat
21 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4

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. Cottage cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

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

  2. Onion + dilltop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,639 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Cottage cheese + dilltop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Blue cheese + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together329 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Cottage cheese + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together146 recipes

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

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

Swap the dill

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Pepperfits better
  4. Dillthe original

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