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Pepper Corn

"This is my family's favorite veggie dish. It's a spicy blend of cream cheese, butter, evaporated milk, corn and chilies. It's not low calorie but it is tasty."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,333 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Cut the cream cheese into cubes and let it soften at room temperature.

  2. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat.

  3. Add the frozen corn kernels and cook, stirring, until heated through and tender, about 5 minutes.

  4. Stir in the diced green chiles and cook for 2 minutes.

  5. Reduce the heat to low, add the cream cheese cubes, and stir until melted and smooth, about 4 minutes.

  6. Slowly stir in the evaporated milk and cook over low heat, stirring often, until hot and creamy, about 5 minutes.

  7. Serve warm.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Cream cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Cream cheese + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  4. Cream cheese + evaporated milktop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together70 recipes
  5. Evaporated milk + corntop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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