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Mediterranean Onion Dip

"A great dip full of flavor, especially for those that like garlic. Perfect dip or spread for flatbread, pitas, cut veggies, tortilla chips or regular potato chips."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Mediterranean Onion Dip

Why it works: Feta cheese and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 64 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Mediterranean Onion Dip

2 cups
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

372Calories
27 gProtein
21 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
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.

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. Feta cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together64 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Feta cheese + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,482 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, pepper, onion, feta cheese, cream cheese, cream, olive):

  1. Oreganofits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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