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Quick and Easy Chili Dip

"For an easy, tasty dip to make for a crowd, try this one. Rather than preparing this dip on the stovetop, you could heat it in a slow cooker without fuss."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,133 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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). Lightly grease an 8x8 inch (20x20 cm) baking dish.

  2. Spread the softened cream cheese evenly across the bottom of the baking dish.

  3. In a bowl, stir together the chili with beans, the chunky salsa and the shredded roast beef until combined.

  4. Spoon the chili mixture over the cream cheese and spread it into an even layer.

  5. Bake for about 30 minutes until the dip is bubbling and hot throughout. Let it cool for 5 minutes and serve warm with the tortilla chips.

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. Beans + beeftop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,133 recipes

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

  2. Beans + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together120 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  3. Cream cheese + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together168 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the beans

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

  1. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Beansthe original
  4. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, beef. 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).