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Buttermilk Blue Cheese Dressing

"This is an awesome, simple recipe, can be used as a vegetable dip, salad dressing, or my husband loves it on Buffalo wings. Best to make and store in the fridge overnight to let the flavors meld. Garlic salt can be used in place of the garlic powder."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Buttermilk and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 42 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

2 1/2 cups
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (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. Pour the buttermilk and mayonnaise into a medium bowl and whisk until smooth and fully combined.

  2. Add the garlic powder and ground black pepper and whisk again to distribute the seasonings evenly.

  3. Crumble the blue cheese into the bowl, leaving some small chunks for texture, and fold it in gently with a spatula.

  4. Taste the dressing and adjust the seasoning if needed.

  5. Transfer to a jar or airtight container and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so the flavors meld before serving.

  6. Keep the dressing chilled and use within about 5 days.

By allrecipes. 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. Buttermilk + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together42 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  3. Blue cheese + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together370 recipes

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

  4. Buttermilk + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Blue cheese + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together220 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

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

  1. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Dillabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against buttermilk, blue cheese, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).