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Port Wine Cheese and Cream Cheese Dill Spread

Rich creamy flavor that’s great for cracker thins, chips or veggies.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Port Wine Cheese and Cream Cheese Dill Spread

Why it works: Dill and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 669 recipes. Both carry p-mentha-1,3,8-triene, which smells camphor, herbal. The science ↓

Port Wine Cheese and Cream Cheese Dill Spread

Serves 8
Prep8 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

342Calories
26 gProtein
20 gFat
10 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
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Port Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Spreadnot 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. Dill + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together669 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).

  2. Cream cheese + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

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

  3. Cream + spreadtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

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

  4. Cream cheese + spreadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  5. Cream cheese + dilltop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, cream, port wine, cheese, spread, parsley):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Celeryfits about as well
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, cream, port wine, cheese, spread, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.