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Caesar Salad Spread Recipe

Cheesy with a tart kick, this spread will revive a plain old chicken sandwich. It also tastes great on a BLT, grilled or roasted chicken, roasted turkey, or roast...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Caesar Salad Spread Recipe

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Caesar Salad Spread Recipe

1/4 cup

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

213Calories
14 gProtein
15 gFat
7 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 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 chow. 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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, cheese, lemon, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

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