Name: Easy Vegetable Dip
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: ⅔ cups Light Sour Cream; ⅔ cups Light Mayonnaise; 1 Tablespoon Chives, Chopped; 1 teaspoon Parsley Flakes (or Use Fresh); 1 teaspoon Seasoned Salt; ½ teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce; 4 drops Tabasco Hot Sauce (or To Taste)

Why it works: Chive and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,150 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Easy Vegetable Dip

Serves 10

Prep5 min

Ingredients

⅔ cups Light Sour Cream
⅔ cups Light Mayonnaise
1 Tablespoon Chives, Chopped
1 teaspoon Parsley Flakes (or Use Fresh)
1 teaspoon Seasoned Salt
½ teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce
4 drops Tabasco Hot Sauce (or To Taste)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

197Calories

25 gProtein

6 gFat

9 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Chive	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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.

Chive + parsleytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,150 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Chive + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together461 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Parsley + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,693 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cream + chivetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together700 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, chive, sauce):

Capersfits better
Tarragonfits better
Garlicfits better
Parsleythe original

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

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