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Blue Cheese Dip with Caramelized Onions and Bacon

A delicious dip combining all the best ingredients of a mouthwatering blue cheese and bacon dip.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Blue Cheese Dip with Caramelized Onions and Bacon

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Blue Cheese Dip with Caramelized Onions and Bacon

Serves 12
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

490Calories
35 gProtein
29 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
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 tastykitchen. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lemon + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Butter + blue cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together232 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 lemon

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Mangofits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

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