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Philly Baked Crab Rangoon

"Impress your guests with this easy-to-make crab rangoon that tastes like the classic recipe but uses sensible ingredients."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and spread work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 102 recipes mention both. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, shellfish (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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Press the wonton wrappers into the cups of a 12-cup muffin tin, letting the corners fan out over the sides.

  2. Drain the canned crabmeat, pressing out excess liquid, and flake it into a bowl.

  3. Add the softened cream cheese, sliced green onions, and MIRACLE WHIP Calorie-Wise Dressing to the crab. Stir until smooth and evenly combined.

  4. Divide the crab filling evenly among the wonton cups, filling each one generously.

  5. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the wrappers are golden at the edges and the filling is hot and bubbling throughout.

  6. Let the cups cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then 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. Cream cheese + spreadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together102 recipes
  2. Onion + wonton wrappertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cream cheese + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  4. Cream cheese + wonton wrappertop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Spread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl acetate (pineapple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

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

  1. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  2. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, spread, wonton wrapper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).