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Dani's Green Monster Salsa

"This is a fresh and creamy green salsa, sort of a cross between guacamole and salsa verde. Put it on tacos, drizzle over grilled meats, or use it as a dip with some chips."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Dani's Green Monster Salsa

Why it works: Avocado and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,117 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dani's Green Monster Salsa

2 1/2 cups
Prep15 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

312Calories
5 gProtein
22 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Jalapeno1 pepper (14g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
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 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. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Jalapeno + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together441 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Jalapeno + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  5. Onion + avocadotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,653 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (jalapeno, pepper, avocado, lime):

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against jalapeno, pepper, avocado, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.