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Gluten Free "Ricotta" Dip Recipe

This tangy Gluten Free and Vegan "Ricotta" Cheese Dip is based on a recipe from the phenomenal book Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,973 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Gluten Free "Ricotta" Dip Recipe

1 bowl of dip

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

207Calories
4 gProtein
20 gFat
8 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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.

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. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  2. Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

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

  3. Pine + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together93 recipes

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

  4. Pine + nutstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Nuts + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, lemon, thyme):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, lemon, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.