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Stuffed Cucumber Snacks

A chilled snack of cucumber halves filled with a cream cheese, blue cheese, parsley, dill, and onion mixture.

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Why it works: Cream cheese and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Stuffed Cucumber Snacks

Time3 to 4 hours

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cucumber

  1. Run the tines of a fork lengthwise down the cucumber.

  2. Cut a 1" slice from each end.

  3. Cut cucumber in half lengthwise; remove and discard seeds.

  4. Place cucumber cut side down on paper towel for 10 minutes.

Fill and chill

  1. Combine cheeses, parsley, dill and onion; spoon into cucumber halves.

  2. Put halves back together; wrap in plastic wrap.

  3. Refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours.

Slice and garnish

  1. Cut into 1/2" slices; garnish with pimiento and dill.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

264Calories
10 gProtein
18 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Pimentonot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Cream cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Parsley + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together669 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).

  3. Cucumber + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

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

  4. Cucumber + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,564 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 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

What each ingredient does

Cucumber
Provides the crisp, cool shell that holds the filling.
Cream cheese
Forms the creamy, spreadable base of the filling.
Blue cheese
Adds sharp, salty flavour that stands out against the mild cream cheese.

The step that matters

Drain the cucumber halves on paper towel. Cucumbers hold a lot of water. If it is not drawn off before filling, the moisture seeps into the cheese, making the filling runny and soggy.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, cream cheese, blue cheese, parsley, dill):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, cream cheese, blue cheese, parsley, dill. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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