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Christmas Dip

"A creamy layered dip that looks beautiful, especially at Christmas, with layers of green pistachios and dried cranberries."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Christmas Dip

Why it works: Cream cheese and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Christmas Dip

4 cups
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

661Calories
22 gProtein
55 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pistachio1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)159
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Brienot 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 + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

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

  2. Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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

  4. Blue cheese + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

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

  5. Brie + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together161 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 (pistachio, cream cheese, butter, blue cheese, brie, cheese):

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

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