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Taco Salad III

"This taco salad contains traditional ingredients such as lettuce, tomatoes, beans, ground beef and corn chips. Serve this salad on a hot summer day."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Taco Salad III

Why it works: Lettuce and avocado match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 464 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Taco Salad III

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

985Calories
57 gProtein
49 gFat
89 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Pinto Bean1/2 cup (86g) canned122
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Corn Chip1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Iceberg Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Taconot in our table0
Salad Dressingnot 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. Lettuce + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together464 recipes

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

  2. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Lettuce + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together500 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Beans + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Beans + kidney beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, lettuce, onion, beans, tomato, avocado, cheddar cheese):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, lettuce, onion, beans, tomato, avocado, cheddar cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.