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Easy Guacamole

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By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Easy Guacamole

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 ↓

Easy Guacamole

2 cups
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

327Calories
6 gProtein
23 gFat
34 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  4. Avocado + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the clove

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

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Clovethe original

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