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French Onion and Blue Cheese Dip

Cooked slowly on the stovetop, onions become meltingly tender and exceptionally sweet. Here, they’re combined with sour cream and other ingredients to create an updated version of a classic dip. A touch of blue cheese adds just the right amount of assertive tang.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 329 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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Ingredients

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By williamssonoma. 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. Onion + blue cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together329 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, sauce, cream, pepper, blue cheese, milk):

  1. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, sauce, cream, pepper, blue cheese, milk. 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).