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Cheesy Green Onion Bagel Dip

"This is a creamy blend of cheeses with green onions mixed in. Always a crowd pleaser wherever I go and always the first to go! Adjust the amount of green onions to your taste. Serve with sliced bagels, or bagel chips."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Cheesy Green Onion Bagel Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 473 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cheesy Green Onion Bagel Dip

4 Cups
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

256Calories
10 gProtein
19 gFat
12 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Processed Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Spreadnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cream cheese + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + spreadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  3. Cheese + oniontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,849 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Cheese + spreadtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Cream cheese + oniontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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 (cream cheese, cheese, spread):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, cheese, spread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.