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Olive Balls

"This recipe is great for Christmas time because of the red, green, and white colors. Very tasty! They are made from cream cheese, green olives, seasoned salt, and pecans."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Olive Balls

Why it works: Cream cheese and pecans work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 465 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Olive Balls

50 appetizers
Prep20 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

299Calories
4 gProtein
31 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Olive1 large (4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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 + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Olive + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together716 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Cream cheese + olivetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,003 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 pecans

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

  1. Walnutfits about as well
  2. Pecansthe original
  3. Beansfits about as well
  4. Peanutfits about as well

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