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Sriracha Sour Cream & Chives

Try some of this next time you make baked potatoes! Scrumptious and a unique flavor experience.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sriracha and chive work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep6 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Rinse the chives, pat them dry, and finely chop them.

  2. Spoon the sour cream into a medium bowl and gently stir with a spatula until smooth.

  3. Add the sriracha sauce, starting with 2 tablespoons, and stir until fully blended.

  4. Add the black pepper and cumin, then stir again to distribute the spices evenly through the sour cream.

  5. Fold in about three-quarters of the chopped chives, reserving the rest for garnish.

  6. Taste the dip and stir in more sriracha if you want it spicier.

  7. Sprinkle the remaining chives over the top and serve right away, or cover and chill briefly before serving.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sriracha + chivetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Cumin + chivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + chivetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sriracha + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sriracha, pepper, chive):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sriracha, pepper, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).