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Veggie Cream Cheese Spread

A delicious spread for crackers, bread, bagels, or sandwiches! Even better than the stuff you’d buy in the store.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Veggie Cream Cheese Spread

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Veggie Cream Cheese Spread

Serves 16
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

258Calories
7 gProtein
11 gFat
37 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Carrot + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together321 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Celery + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pepper + dilltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, carrot, celery, pepper, chive, dill, clove):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, carrot, celery, pepper, chive, dill, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.