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Nettles Dried Beef Dip

"I take this recipe to family and friend get togethers and it's always a hit. It's quick to put together. Serve it with an assortment of crackers, or try it with green olives."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Nettles Dried Beef Dip

Why it works: Horseradish and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 134 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Nettles Dried Beef Dip

2 cups
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

650Calories
54 gProtein
34 gFat
30 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
Beef100g cooked250
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Horseradishnot 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. Horseradish + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Horseradish + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  4. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Dill + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,223 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 dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, cream, milk, horseradish, onion, beef, olive):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Celeryfits about as well
  4. Dillthe original

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