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Super Bowl® Dip

"I make this every year for my Super Bowl® parties and everyone raves over it. You can make it as spicy or as mild as you want."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Super Bowl® Dip

Why it works: Cheese and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,735 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Super Bowl® Dip

20 servings
Prep10 min
Cook2 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

387Calories
35 gProtein
24 gFat
8 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Processed Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Jalapeno Pepper1 pepper (14g)4
Saucenot 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. Cheese + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,735 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  2. Pepper + jalapenotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  4. Sauce + jalapenotop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together420 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

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

Swap the jalapeno

The recipe marks jalapeno as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, pork, pepper, sauce):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

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