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Hot Wing Dip

A creamy dip made with blue cheese, sour cream, garlic, cayenne pepper, and salt, served with celery and hot wings.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Hot Wing Dip

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dip

  1. Combine cheese, cayenne, sour cream, garlic, and salt in a serving bowl.

Serve

  1. Serve with celery sticks and hot wings or Buffalo Wings.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

218Calories
24 gProtein
9 gFat
10 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
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Buffalonot 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 Wikibooks Cookbook.

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. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Blue cheese + buffalotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

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

  4. Garlic + buffalotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  5. Garlic + celerytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,321 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Blue cheese
Provides the sharp, tangy flavour that defines the dip.
Sour cream
Adds creaminess and moisture, giving the dip a smooth, scoopable body.
Cayenne pepper
Supplies the heat that gives the dip its buffalo-style kick.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma and savoury depth.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (blue cheese, cream, pepper, buffalo, celery):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Basilfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against blue cheese, cream, pepper, buffalo, celery. 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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