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Tangy Ranch Cashews Recipe

This recipe for ranch-dressing-flavored cashews tosses roasted nuts with a buttermilk, garlic, onion, and chive spice mix for an addictive snack.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Tangy Ranch Cashews Recipe

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Tangy Ranch Cashews Recipe

About 4 cups
Cook55 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

474Calories
15 gProtein
34 gFat
32 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 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 chow. 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.

  1. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Chive + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chive + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chive + buttermilktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together83 recipes

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

  5. Buttermilk + garlictop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together285 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 (chive, buttermilk, garlic):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Broccolifits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

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