Name: Fried Pickles with Lemon Dill Dipping Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 6 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 jar Dill Pickle Spears (I Use A 24 Ounce Jar); 4 cups Canola Oil; ¼ cups All-purpose Flour; 2 cups Breadcrumbs Or Panko; ¼ cups Sour Cream; 1 cup Cream Cheese, Room Temperature; 1 cup Buttermilk; 1 whole Lemon, Zest And Juice; 2 Tablespoons Chopped Dill

Why it works: Dill and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Fried Pickles with Lemon Dill Dipping Sauce

Serves 4

Prep5 min

Cook6 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

938Calories

40 gProtein

34 gFat

119 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4

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.

Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together976 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Flour + buttermilktop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,721 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cream + buttermilktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together674 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Dill + buttermilktop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together83 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Canola oil + lemontop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together376 recipes

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

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 (dill, canola oil, flour, cream, cream cheese, buttermilk):

Avocadofits about as well
Lemonthe original
Coconutfits less well
Limefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against dill, canola oil, flour, cream, cream cheese, buttermilk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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