Name: Warm Crab Rangoon Dip
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 2-½ cups Crab Meat; 1 whole Yellow Onion; 16 ounces, weight Chopped Chive (to Taste); ½ cups Softened Cream Cheese, Preferably With Garden Vegetable Flavor; 2 Tablespoons Sour Cream; 1 Tablespoon Confectioners Sugar; 1 teaspoon Fresh Minced Garlic; 1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce; ½ teaspoons Sherry (or To Taste)

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Warm Crab Rangoon Dip

Serves 6

Prep15 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

2-½ cups Crab Meat
1 whole Yellow Onion
16 ounces, weight Chopped Chive (to Taste)
½ cups Softened Cream Cheese, Preferably With Garden Vegetable Flavor
2 Tablespoons Sour Cream
1 Tablespoon Confectioners Sugar
1 teaspoon Fresh Minced Garlic
1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
½ teaspoons Sherry (or To Taste)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

550Calories

45 gProtein

25 gFat

33 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Shrimp	100g cooked	99
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Chive	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Meat	not in our table	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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Chive + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,149 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,907 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Crab + meattop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together448 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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 (crab, meat, chive, cream cheese, cream, sugar, garlic):

Welsh onionfits about as well
Spinachfits about as well
Mustardfits about as well
Onionthe original

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

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