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Celery Sticks with Blue Cheese Dip

This tangy, creamy sauce makes a great centrepiece for a party platter but is versatile enough to go beyond crudités

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and celery work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 90 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

SERVES 12 as a canapé
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, soy, fish (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. Put the soured cream or crème fraîche and mayonnaise in a bowl and whisk until smooth.

  2. Add the crumbled blue cheese, white wine vinegar and Worcestershire sauce, then mash and stir until the dip is mostly smooth with some small blue cheese pieces remaining.

  3. Taste the dip and adjust the seasoning with a little more vinegar or Worcestershire if you like.

  4. Cover the dip and chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes so the flavours blend.

  5. Trim the celery head, cut it into batons and rinse them under cold water, then pat dry.

  6. Arrange the celery batons on a platter around a bowl of the blue cheese dip and serve.

By bbcgoodfood. 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. Blue cheese + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Blue cheese + white winetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  3. White wine + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Cream + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,786 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Blue cheese + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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