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Bacon Avocado Cream Cheese Dip

"Yummy dip or wonton filling that can be quickly made, but is sure to impress!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and avocado work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 76 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 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. Place the softened cream cheese in a mixing bowl and beat with a spoon or hand mixer until smooth.

  2. Stir in the salsa until evenly combined with the cream cheese.

  3. Add the chopped bacon and chopped green onions and mix well.

  4. Gently fold in the cubed avocado so the pieces stay mostly intact.

  5. Season with salt and ground black pepper to taste, stirring again.

  6. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so the flavors blend, or serve right away at room temperature.

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 + avocadotop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Onion + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,653 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Onion + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,463 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + avocadotop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,455 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, 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, pepper, avocado):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Cucumberbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

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