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Layered Taco Dip

"Taco dip layered with green onions, black olives, tomatoes, lettuce and cheese. Serve with tortilla chips. "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Layered Taco Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and cottage cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Layered Taco Dip

12 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

397Calories
23 gProtein
24 gFat
25 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
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Olive1 large (4g)4
Taconot 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 + cottage cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

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

  2. Cottage cheese + cheddar cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together191 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + cheddar cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together467 recipes

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

  4. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, cottage cheese, onion, olive, tomato, lettuce, cheddar cheese):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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