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Grape and Avocado Salsa

"Always a hit at get-togethers this unique and delicious salsa is fabulous on chicken or fish. It can also be served with bagel chips or tortilla chips."

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Why it works: Grape and avocado work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 81 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

2 cups
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Chop the seedless red grapes. Peel, pit and dice the avocado. Place both in a mixing bowl.

  2. Chop the red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, sweet onion and fresh cilantro. Add them to the bowl with the grapes and avocado.

  3. Drizzle the lime juice over the mixture, then sprinkle in the garlic salt and ground black pepper.

  4. Gently fold everything together with a spatula so the avocado pieces hold their shape and the salsa is evenly mixed.

  5. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for about 15 minutes so the flavors blend. Serve chilled.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Grape + avocadotop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  5. Avocado + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,653 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

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

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, avocado, pepper, lime, garlic. 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).