Skip to main content

Watermelon Fire and Ice Salsa

"Juicy watermelon replaces tomatoes in this salsa that's simultaneously cool and spicy hot -- perfect for a summer barbeque. Serve it with tortilla chips, or use it as a topping for grilled chicken or fish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Watermelon Fire and Ice Salsa

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Watermelon Fire and Ice Salsa

4 cups
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

137Calories
4 gProtein
1 gFat
32 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Watermelon1 cup diced (152g)46
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Green Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Jalapeno Pepper1 pepper (14g)4
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.

Explore the science

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Lime + jalapenotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  4. Jalapeno + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Lime + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,411 recipes

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

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 (pepper, lime, jalapeno, garlic):

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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