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Trisha's Game Day Dip

"This spicy dip has the taste of buffalo chicken wings and blue cheese. It's perfect for football parties. Guys and girls love it! Serve with tortilla chips and celery."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Trisha's Game Day Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Trisha's Game Day Dip

5 cups
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

491Calories
46 gProtein
31 gFat
5 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Salad Dressingnot 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. Cream cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + cheddar cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together467 recipes

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

  3. Blue cheese + cheddar cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + cheddar cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Celery + blue cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, cream cheese, sauce, blue cheese, cheddar cheese):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celerythe original
  3. Jalapenofits about as well
  4. Oreganofits less well

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