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Lime-Shrimp Avocado Pasta Salad

"A fresh springtime pasta salad perfect for a Cinco de Mayo celebration."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Lime-Shrimp Avocado Pasta Salad

Why it works: Lime and avocado 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 ↓

Lime-Shrimp Avocado Pasta Salad

8 servings
Prep20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

840Calories
40 gProtein
38 gFat
95 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
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.

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. Lime + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Pasta + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Avocado + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,449 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 grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, lime, pasta, avocado, tomato, onion, olive):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Grapethe original

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