Name: Spinach and Roasted Red Pepper Dip
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 8 ounces, weight Low Fat Cream Cheese, Room Temperature; 1 cup Plain, Non-fat Greek Yogurt; 2 cloves Garlic, Minced; 7 ounces, weight Roasted Red Peppers (from A Jar), Drained And Diced; 8 ounces, weight Frozen Spinach, Defrosted And Squeezed To Remove Excess Liquid; ½ teaspoons Kosher Salt; ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper; 4 ounces, weight Part Skim Mozzarella, Shredded

Why it works: Garlic and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,435 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Spinach and Roasted Red Pepper Dip

Serves 8

Prep10 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

8 ounces, weight Low Fat Cream Cheese, Room Temperature
1 cup Plain, Non-fat Greek Yogurt
2 cloves Garlic, Minced
7 ounces, weight Roasted Red Peppers (from A Jar), Drained And Diced
8 ounces, weight Frozen Spinach, Defrosted And Squeezed To Remove Excess Liquid
½ teaspoons Kosher Salt
¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
4 ounces, weight Part Skim Mozzarella, Shredded

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

307Calories

26 gProtein

17 gFat

13 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Mozzarella Cheese	1 oz (28g)	85
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 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 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.

Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,435 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Pepper + spinachtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,400 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,090 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cream cheese + yogurttop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together873 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, yogurt, garlic, pepper, spinach):

Cuminfits better
Dillfits better
Corianderfits better
Clovethe original

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

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